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'Nineteenth-century Irish actress Harriet Smithson, the woman who brought Shakespeare to Paris and made the role of Ophelia her own, is the muse for this stunning novel.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
Dedication: For Rupert
Epigraph: At once he took his Muse and dipt her Right in the middle of the Scripture (W. Hazlitt, Liber Amoris: or The New Pygmalion)
The aspiration of the mind is after the highest excellence, its longings are after immortality: its performance is generally as nothing; its triumph but for a moment! (Oxberry's Prefatory Remarks to Jane Shore: A Tragedy by Nicholas Rowe)
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