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A review by lorrainelowereads
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue, Charlotte Strevens
4.0
The Sealed Letter is my third Emma Donoghue novel, and while I didn’t love it as much as Room or The Wonder, I still really enjoyed it. It didn’t require a huge amount of brain power but at the same time it was really interesting and engaging.
Donoghue transports is back to London in 1864 and tells a story involving real people; Emily Faithfull, a women’s rights campaigner, and Helen Codrington, who was involved in one of the first big divorce cases in the UK (in those days, divorce cases went to trial and were decided by a jury).
Donoghue does a great job of recreating London of that time and of reimagining the court case. Emily and Helen are great characters that you really care about and there is also insight into the wranglings within the women’s movement at that time, where some wanted more change than others.
Donoghue transports is back to London in 1864 and tells a story involving real people; Emily Faithfull, a women’s rights campaigner, and Helen Codrington, who was involved in one of the first big divorce cases in the UK (in those days, divorce cases went to trial and were decided by a jury).
Donoghue does a great job of recreating London of that time and of reimagining the court case. Emily and Helen are great characters that you really care about and there is also insight into the wranglings within the women’s movement at that time, where some wanted more change than others.