![]() ![]() Instead he teams up with another academic Maud Bailey, who has devoted years to dissecting LaMotte’s work. He steals them and also hides his discovery from his boss. ![]() The first example comes only a few pages into the story when a postgraduate researcher uncovers some letters which hint at a secret relationship between the Victorian poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte. The more you read it, the more forms of possession become apparent: legal ownership of correspondence and creative work obsession with words control of one’s history exertion of influence emotional disturbance. Possession in all its manifestations - physical, spiritual, emotional - is the focus of A S Byatt’s 1990 Booker winning novel. When a writer dies, should their private lives die with them? Or should they become the possessions of academics and enthusiasts, to be collected, catalogued and analysed like laboratory specimens. ![]()
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