He leafed through the chapter headings: 'From Venus Mount to the Barren Heath' 'Female Landscapes and Unbroken Waters, Impenetrable Surfaces' 'From the Fountain of Thirst to the Armorican Ocean Skin'"Īt the heart of Possession is the love story between the poets Ash and LaMotte. began on his familiarisation with Christabel LaMotte. Women's studies come in for similar irreverant treatment: "Roland. Realising the significance of the letters, he is desperate to possess them so he steals them, unleashing merry mayhem in the world of academic literature. The story opens when, purely by chance, Roland unearths fragments of two letters by Ash addressed to some unknown person. One significant year, LaMotte disappears for several months and Blanche commits suicide. It is supposed that they had an exclusive, possibly lesbian, relationship, and that LaMotte eventually died a childless spinster.
Maud, who heads a women's studies department, is studying the poet Christabel LaMotte, who is known to have lived with her friend, Blanche.
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