The plague? These heroines, despite their own historical contexts, are miraculously third-wave feminists. I saw it in A Great and Terrible Beauty I saw it in Ophelia. There is a problem, nay, a plague, affecting young adult historical fiction with female protagonists. But Louisa persists in trying to discover who locked her away and why, even as she begins to have more than friendly feelings towards Eliza… While initially convinced of her identity and sanity, Louisa soon begins to question herself, as she falls into the routine of the asylum and strikes up a friendship with Eliza, an orderly. There, they strip her of her clothes and her name, insisting that she is called Lucy Childs and that Louisa Cosgrove never existed. Wildthorn opens with Louisa Cosgrove being delivered to Wildthorn Hall, an asylum. So, needing something quick before Thanksgiving, I finally managed to read the thing.
I’ve actually rented this book before and simply not gotten around to it luckily, it’s at my local library, rather than needing to be requested, so that’s a definite help. So when I discovered that there was a young adult title that covered similar ground, I was quite pleased.
Wildthorn has been on my reading list for a while given my love for Sarah Waters’ “Victorian Women in Love” trilogy (not, obviously, the loose trilogy’s actual title), seeking out more titles about queer women in Victorian England is just natural.
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