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Article: A.S. Byatt (1936-).(Biography)
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- January 1, 2007
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"I shall from time to time write a small Clue--so that you may be the
more thoroughly confounded."
--Possession (1990)
In her best-selling romance-and-literary thriller
Possession (1990), Dame Antonia Susan Byatt--better known as A. S. Byatt--dazzled readers around the world. As two young, contemporary scholars uncover clues to a clandestine love affair between two fictitious Victorian poets, Byatt explored ideas about love, passion, progress, and the relationship between the living and dead. Pondering these concepts, 20th-century scholars Maud Bailey and Roland Mitchell become "possessed" by their Victorian subjects. "Literary critics make natural ...