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The French Lieutenant's Woman
by John Fowles
Charles and his fiance Ernestina are roaming Lyme, England when they come across the mysterious and perhaps mad woman known as, Tragedy, the French Lieutenant's Woman, or in crude terms the French Lieutenant's Whore). The word is she awaits the return of a Frenchman injured in a shipwreck off the coast. The household Tragedy was a governess for nursed the Frenchman to health and they supposedly had an inappropriate relationship for Victorian times. Charles doesn't think twice about her until he stumbles across her sleeping in the woods. She seems wild and different than any other Victorian woman he's met, even more than Ernestina. Charles feels a connection to Tragedy, whose real name is Sarah, and gains her trust to relate the "true" story of her affair with the Frenchman. Charles comes to learn that Sarah is an extremely complicated woman, whose motivations are a mystery, perhaps even to herself.
This novel portrays the hypocrisy of the Victorian age, the immaculate facade and the hypersexuality lying underneath.
This novel portrays the hypocrisy of the Victorian age, the immaculate facade and the hypersexuality lying underneath.