I don’t want to be too reductive, because Restoration England is a very fertile period as a setting: there is a Civil War, religious conflict, a plague, London’s Great Fire, and women started acting on the stage. This is totally Gone with the Wind set in the 1600s I wasn’t going to bring it up, but my friend Rachael (fellow 7 th grade Junior Friend of the Library, and one of the very first supporters of this website) said it for me: I mean, I’m showing my American biases, but this does seem slightly familiar… How epic is Forever Amber? Well, it’s got a self-centered anti-heroine making her way through a Civil War and its aftermath, marrying men out of a sense self-preservation while fruitlessly pursuing her unrequited love (a gentleman born of a higher station than herself), who has married a refined lady… let’s see, Slavery in the Americas provides some key plot components… the Heroine escapes from a big fire… there is a dramatic scene involving her being shunned for wearing a scandalous gown… it was made into an epic movie with a lot of publicity surrounding the search for the leading lady… Well, Constant Readers, I vowed to get to our first massive tome of the summer in July, and I almost made it.
This week, the first selection, Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor) ( Click here for information on the 2022 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature.
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