Biographical fiction —that is, fiction which takes for its subject the life of a real, identified individual instead of an imaginary character — has long been considered a minor genre, not to be taken seriously and certainly not to be trusted. The on-line Encyclopedia Britannica, …
Read MoreMary Wollstonecraft and other denizens of Somers Town
In the unrelenting process of growth and modernization, every large city has seen whole neighbourhoods altered beyond recognition. But Somers Town has undergone more change than most. Transformed in the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft lived there from rural landscape to urban slum, sectioned by the railways (the dead dug up, the living unhoused), bulldozed more recently for grand institutions like the British Library or the Francis Crick Institute, it has persisted through constant demolition and rebuilding.
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