Nancy Means Wright
Auteur de Midnight Fires: A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft
A propos de l'auteur
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Séries
Œuvres de Nancy Means Wright
Wild Nights (Mary Wollstonecraft, #4) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th Century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Middlebury, Vermont, USA
- Études
- Vassar College
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Membres
- 319
- Popularité
- #74,135
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 31
- ISBN
- 44
- Langues
- 1
Wright captures the character of intellectual London brilliantly. These writers, artists and French revolutionaries are passionate idealists, but they lack common sense. With their heads in the clouds trying to unravel the grand philosophical knots plaguing mankind, they stumble into the mud puddles at their feet. Obsessed with trying to change her sexual attraction to Fuseli into an intellectual ideal, Mary hardly pays any mind to the crimes of the story, making her a bizarre yet intriguing sleuth. When she helps to solve the mystery, it is almost as an after-thought: save France from its corrupt royalty, demand equal rights for women, discover murderer and avoid being killed . . . .
Devotes to the murder mystery genre might be frustrated by the lack of focus characters show to solving the crimes, yet I found Mary's scatter-brained intellectualism charming. I appreciate Wright's ability to model her fictional Mary Wollstonecraft with the clay of the historical person, keeping her personality and foibles and not pretending that when faced with a murder she would suddenly become Sherlock Holmes.… (plus d'informations)