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...insightful critique of the societal tendency to conflate persons and property. Unfortunately, instead of developing this theme (not so foreign to the aspiring i-banker set), the novel descends into hackneyed tropes of the romance genre. This third installment of Willig’s “Pink Carnation?? series is ultimately concerned with providing the reader vicarious erotic gratification...
Framed by Eloise’s modern-day dissertation research into the “Pink Carnation?? and “League of the Purple Gentian”—British espionage organizations meant to quash Irish insurrection in 1803—the narrative centers on Letty Alsworthy, the newlywed of Purple Gentian officer Geoff Pinchingdale-Snipe...
...first glance, Willig may bear a bit more resemblance to Eloise Kelly, who, as Carnation??s prologue opens, has just left a stuffy carrel in modern Widener Library for a year of fortuitously-fruitful historical research in London. But for the last three years, Willig has led her very own many-faceted life, fitting her novelistic pursuits into a bifurcated academic schedule of history...
CASTING ‘CARNATION?...
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