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Title	:	The Sealed Letter
Author	:	Emma Donoghue
Book Format	:	Unknown Binding
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 397 pages
Published	:	April 30th 2008 by HarperCollins Canada (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Lesbian

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Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull is a "woman of business" and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of her once-dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is swept up in the intimate details of Helen's failing marriage and obsessive affair with a young army officer. What begins as a loyal effort to help a friend explodes into a courtroom drama that rivals the Clinton affair --complete with stained clothing, accusations of adultery, counterclaims of rape, and a mysterious letter that could destroy more than one life.

Based on a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, The Sealed Letter is a riveting, provocative drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian style.

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Original Title:	The Sealed Letter
ISBN:	1554680360 (ISBN13: 9781554680368)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Literature (2009), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2012), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2008), Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian General Fiction (2008)

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This is a fictionalised account of the Codrington divorce of 1864, a scandalous divorce that gripped England at the time as it was reported in all of the newspapers. It follows the story of Miss Emily "Fido" Faithfull, a spinster and women's rights activist, who was a close friend to Helen Codrington, the woman accused of adultery by her husband, and sued for divorce in a spectacularly public fashion.Divorce in the Victorian era was most certainly not as easy as it is today. It was only possible

I have a couple of friends who worship at the altar of Emma Donoghue, and I think I bought this in a sale back when someone was being particularly vocal about Donoghue. As a piece of imaginative reconstruction, as historical fiction, its well enough done I think there are a couple of anachronisms, potentially on purpose for convenience, but for the most part, it evokes the era its set in. The main character, Emily Faithfull, is based on a real person who is pretty fascinating: she was a womens

I've been emersed in the world of The Sealed Letter for about a week, all victorian dresses, clandestine romance and nasty gossip. It also has that clever Emma Donoghue trick of taking real life newspaper headlines from the past and building a fantastic reality based fiction around it. I was interested in the story of Helen and Fido, Helen the passionate and, for the times, free loving and unfaithful wife. Fido the campaigner for women's rights who believes blindly in Helen and worships her

When I first started reading The Sealed Letter, I did not realise that it was based on a true divorce case that had scandalized England in the nineteenth century. Later, I learnt that Donoghues adaptation was actually very faithful to many of the original storys details, except for the compressed time frame of the trial which I felt was necessary in order to create the sense of the characters plummeting towards their various ends.The style of writing is very different from that of Room, by the

Started off very engrossing and remained a fascinating glimpse into the birth of feminism. Is it a professional defect that the trial scenes bogged down for me? Overall an extremely well researched and atmospheric glimpse into the gender and sexual complexities of the Victorian upper middle class. Part of Donoghue's skill however, makes this book less enjoyable than it could be- all three of her main characters, adulteress , husband and "faithful companion" are somewhat less than sympathetic.

I've been an admirer of Emma Donoghue's prose for a long time, enjoying both her contemporary and historical novels. This tale, based on a true story involving a sensational divorce trial in Victorian England, breezes along and is enjoyable in every way. As in real life, none of the three main characters is without fault, and none is completely to blame. I feel, though, given the talent of the writer, that the constraints she places by keeping fairly true to the original story make for slightly

Till I reached the end and read the authors note, I wasnt aware The Sealed Letter is based on some actual individuals Emma Donoghue dug out from 19th century. Unlike in her Astray where real incidents were converted to short stories, this time she has spreads it to a full novel.Fidos involvement in womens reform movements is used to give a clear picture on deprived situation of women in the era, yet it is not a story where good women unreasonably suffer under evil men who take advantage of their