The Washington Post, April 26th, 1992
LOVE'S CHILDREN By Judith Chernaik Knopf. 229 pp. $20 IN LOVE'S CHILDREN, Judith Chernaik's exuberant novel of the female view of life and love among English Romantic writers, one character remarks: "I am sure it would be more interesting to read a true story, the memoirs of a real flesh-and-blood woman, than a novel in which the characters are invented out of whole cloth and you can see the catastrophe coming from the opening page." The line is just one of many self-reflexive jokes in Chernaik's work, which breaks boundaries between fact and fiction in re-imagining the 1816-17 journals and le...
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