MRS ROBINSON’S DISGRACE: THE DIARY OF A VICTORIAN LADY

Book ID/图书代码： 11701211B47648

English Summary/英文概要： In 1856, in a holiday house in the French port of Boulogne, Isabella Robinson - an Englishwoman of about 40 - succumbed to a fever. As she lay on her sickbed, her husband Henry, an engineer ten years her senior, glanced through his wife’s private journal. He was horrified by what he found: accounts of infatuations with several young men of their acquaintance, and a description of a passionate affair with a doctor friend. On the family’s return to England, Mr Robinson sued for divorce.

What preceded and follows these events make up Kate Summerscale’s hugely engaging account of the life of Mrs Robinson - the story of an ordinary Victorian woman’s dreams for passion and learning, companionship and love in a society that can barely contain her.

MRS ROBINSON’S DISGRACE is as much about our desire to reveal ourselves on paper, where we present ourselves and play with the idea of a reader, as it is about romance, diaries, fantasy and the truth about who we were and who we might be.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当伊莎贝拉·罗宾逊在1850年的一次派对上被介绍给风度翩翩的爱德华·拉内(Edward Lane)时，她被完全征服了。她在日记中写道，他“很迷人”，然后她责备自己太容易被男人的魅力吸引。但是一个愿望攫住了她，她发现自己很难摆脱…… 在19世纪最臭名昭著的离婚案之一中，伊莎贝拉·鲁滨逊的梦想和秘密被公之于众。凯特· 莎莫史克尔生动地再现了维多利亚时代下的一位失意的妻子对激情、学习、友谊和爱情的渴望，而当时的社会对婚姻和女性性行为的观念十分刻板。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Rights Sold:
UK: Bloomsbury
US: Walker
France: Bourgois,
Germany: Berlin

“It is a beautiful piece, written with great lucidity and respect for the reader, and with immaculate restraint. A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary writing.”--- John le Carré

“Summerscale has constructed nothing less than a masterpiece… The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is at one and the same time a crime thriller, a ociological history, a biography and a fascinating essay on the nature of investigation…. My shelves are stacked with books about crime, but none more satisfying than this.”---The Mail on Sunday

“Summerscale smartly uses an energetic narrative voice and a suspenseful pace, among other novelistic devices, to make her factual material read with the urgency of a work of fiction. What she has constructed, specifically, is a traditional country-house mystery, more brutal than cozy, but presenting the same kind of intellectual puzzle as her fictional models and adorned, as such books once were, with wonderfully old-fashioned maps, diagrams, engravings, courtroom sketches and other illustrations…More important, Summerscale accomplishes what modern genre authors hardly bother to do anymore, which is to use a murder investigation as a portal to a wider world. When put in historical context, every aspect of this case tells us something about mid-Victorian society…The author’s startling final twist both vindicates her fallen hero and advances an ’aggressive’ attack on moral hypocrisy in his day and ours.”---The New York Times Book Review

About the Author/作者介绍： Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award.She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House, published in April 2008, was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, the 2009 Galaxy Book of the Year and is a Number One International Bestseller. Kate Summerscale lives in London.

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Bloomsbury; US: Bloomsbury US; France: Bourgois / 10/18; Germany: Berlin; Holland: Nieuw Amsterdam; Italy: Einaudi; Portugal: Bertrand; Russia: AST; Slovenia: Zala

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