The third book in Evie Dunmore’s A League of Extraordinary Women series became available from Minuteman after being on hold for 10 weeks. Portrait of a Scotsman is begins in August, 1880, and is about the suffragist movement and mining conditions. The main characters are Hattie Greenfield and Lucian Blackstone. The fourth book is already on hold.
Highlights:
Matthews (a very suspicious aide and eventual villain) plays the same song on his traverse flute over and over.
The Greenfields do still gather for Friday night dinners:
Hattie: Aunty hates me, too?
Mina: Not entirely. She blames much of it on our ancestors for moving to London and converting the Greenfields to the Anglican Church.
Granton–Burntisland Ferry Service moves the entire train onto a roll-on ferry, and has been running well for thirty years.
Hattie: It struck her then that she had been tricked into a marriage for the purpose of British fiscal reform.
St. Andrews awaited them beneath turbulent skies, the gray above mirroring the low gray cottages and cobblestone streets below. Seagull cries filled the air and a salty wind relentlessly beat away at the university towers and crumbling abbey ruins.
I was sad that while Hattie and Lucian love each other, Hattie asks for a separation, a mensa et thoro. Then the story continues in April 1881, when Lucian shows up in Mytilene Ville, Southern France.
Author’s Note: I felt it was crucial for her to feel free from any legal hold a man might have over her for once in her life, and to only relinquish this freedom at a point of her own choosing. The legal separation she proposed gave her that option.
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