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- Author John Fowles moved to Lyme Regis in 1965 and his classic novel The French Lieutenant's Woman helped put the town on the map. Now the author's work and passion for Lyme has been honoured in a national archive.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love.
Sep 9, 2024 · There Charles Smithson and his intended bride, Ernestina Freeman, see the French lieutenant’s woman, Sarah Woodruff, staring longingly out to sea, evidently trying to find something more...
Jan 8, 2009 · Within 15 months of moving to Lyme Regis, John Fowles began to write what was to become his most famous novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, gathering inspiration from the landscape around...
Charles, a 30-year-old independently wealthy Londoner with an amateur interest in paleontology, is engaged to the stylish socialite Ernestina. Both are staying in Lyme Regis: she, because of her parents' strict wish that she recover from an imagined consumptive disease, and he to be with her.
Nov 13, 2021 · John Fowles moved to Lyme Regis in 1965, buying Underhill Farm, in the Undercliff west of Lyme. He started The French Lieutenant’s Woman the following year, setting it in the town a hundred years earlier (1867).
The French Lieutenant’s Woman opens with its three primary characters all out walking on the Cobb, a stone breakwater that forms the manmade harbor of Lyme Regis. Charles Smithson and his fiancee, Tina Freeman, banter affectionately about Charles’s acceptance of “the Darwinian position” and fondness for fossils until Charles notices ...
Complete summary of John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The French Lieutenant's Woman.
