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Sep 18, 1981 · ''The French Lieutenant's Woman,'' which opens today at the Little Carnegie Theater, is an astonishingly beautiful film, acted to the elegant hilt by Meryl Streep as the ultimately unreliable...
Upon asking Ernestina about the woman's identity, he learns that she is Sarah Woodruff, known to the residents of Lyme Regis, Dorset, as the abandoned lover of a French naval officer, and a...
Review of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, in Life, May 29, 1970, p. 55. Review of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, in New York Times, November 10, 1969.
The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love. The novel builds on Fowles' authority in Victorian literature, both ...
Mar 29, 2012 · What story there is (and some of Fowles' readers will perhaps regret its yielding to edification) deals with the tri-cornered relationship between Charles Smithson, Ernestina, his fiancee, and Sarah Woodruff, reputed and professing to be a French Lieutenant's discarded woman.
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This mysterious woman would become the inspiration for Fowles's third novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman (Boston, Toronto, 1969), an international popular and critical success and the most highly acclaimed work from this prolific author.
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