Possession: A Romance

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Possession A Romance
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Chapter One

• Function to introduce storyline.
• Focus Letters, Quotation and Rolands research
• Characters Roland Mitchell, Val, R.H. Ash and
  Christabel LaMotte
• Setting London Library
• one day in September 1986 at 11.15

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Chapter Two

• Function to explain Rolands life and his
  relationship with Val
• Focus Rolands life
• Characters Roland, Val
• Settings at Vals and Rolands House in the
  evening,

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Chapter Three

• Function to introduce Christabel LaMotte.
• Focus Rolands research, relationship with
  Blackadder and Fergus
• Characters Roland, Blackadder, Paola, Fergus
• Settings Bloomsbury, British Museum, Ash
  Factory in the afternoon

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Chapter Four

• Function to introduce Maud Bailey
• Focus quotations
• Characters Roland, Maud
• Settings Lincoln University, Lincoln Library,
  Womens Centre in the afternoon
• Mauds house in the evening

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Chapter Five

• Function to explicate that the relationship
  between Ash and Christabel has real existed
• Focus to create suspense and curiosity around
  the relationship between Ash and Christabel with
  the discovery of their corrispondence
• Characters Roland, Maud, Joan Bailey, George
  Bailey
• Settings Lincolnshire, Seal Court in the
  morning
• Sir George Baileys house, Christabel
  LaMottes room in the night

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Chapter Six

• Function to let the reader know about Cropper s
  research
• Focus Croppers research of something new about
  Ash life
• Characters Cropper, Mrs Daist Wapshott,
  Priscilla Cropper
• Settings Mrs Daist Wapshotts house 3 OClock
• Ever blest House, Tresure Cabinet(New
  Mexico)
• Barret's Hotel (Piccadilly)

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Chapter Seven

• Function to introduce two charactersBeatrice
  Nest and Euan MacIntyre
• Focus the letter that Roland received from Joan
  Bailey
• Characters Beatrice Nest, Roland, Val, Euan
  MacIntyre, Cropper
• Settings Beatrices house before lunch
• Rolands house at lunch

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Chapter Eight

• Function to represent Roland and Mauds research
• Focus C. LaMottes letters
• Characters Maud, Roland, Joan Bailey
• Settings G. Baileys House (in Seal Court)
• Mauds home, in the evening
• G. Baileys House

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Chapter Nine

• Focus LaMottes story The Threshold

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Chapter Ten

• Function to explain the reader the relationship
  between C.LaMotte and R.H.Ash
• Focus letters between Ash and Christabel
• Characters Randolph Henry Ash, Christabel
  LaMotte

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Chapter Eleven

• Focus Ashs poem Swammerdam

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Chapter Twelve

• Function to create suspance
• Focus Ashs letters to Ellen, Ellens journal
• Characters Roland, Maud, Val, Beatrice Nest,
  Fergus, Ellen Ahs, Blanche Glover
• SettingsBethany in Richmond a sunny Day in
  april
• Vals house
• Beatrice nests house
• in Museum Street

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Chapter Thirteen

• Function to present the relationship between
  Maud and Roland and Maud and C.LaMotte
• Focus Ash and LaMottes possible journey in
  Yorkshire
• Characters Maud, Roland
• Settings
• The Cliff
• Flamborough
• Port of Whitby
• Jewelry store

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Chapter Fourteen

• Function to represent the parallelism between
  the two love stories
• Focus Connection of the stories
• Characters Maud, Roland
• Settings Yorkshire, Boggle Hole

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Chapter Fiveteen

• Function to explain the reader the relationship
  between Ahs and LaMotte
• Focus the journey in Yorkshire of the two
  Victorian poets
• Characters R.H.Ash, C.LaMotte
• Settings Yorkshire

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Chapter Sixteen

• Function to present a Christabels poem to put
  her personality into a better focus through her
  writings
• Focus the proem of the fairy melusine

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Chapter Seventeen

• Function to provide information about Fergus and
  Croppers intentions
• Focus Fergus ideas
• Characters Blackadder, Fergus, Val, Cropper
• Settings Ashs factory, Vals home,
  LEscargot, street of Soho

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Chapter Eighteen

• Function to explain the development of the plot
• Focus dialogues
• Characters Maud, Leonora, Blackadder, Sir George
  Bailey, Cropper, Paola, Byng
• Settings
• Womens Studies Resource Centre
• Mauds home
• Lincoln
• Ashs factory

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Chapter Nineteen

• Function to provide information about Blanches
  suicide.
• Focus Sabines Journal
• Characters Maud, Roland, Sir George, Ariane Le
  Minier, Leonora
• Settings on a ship to France, Nantes, Finistere,
  Sir Georges house

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Chapter Twenty

• Function to create suspance
• Focus Croppers effort to read the
  correspondence between Ash and LaMotte
• Characters Cropper, Sir George, Blackadder, Ms
  Patel, Leonora, Shushila, Ash, LaMotte
• Settings a City church

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Chapter Twenty-one

• Focus quotation of Ash's Mummy Possest

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Chapter Twenty-Two

• Function to show the relationship between Euan
  and Val
• Focus Val and Euans relationship
• Characters Val, Euan Maclntyre, Byng
• Settings the horse races in Newmarket

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Chapter Twenty-three

• Function to make clear to the reader the
  development of things
• Focus the relationship between Roland and Maud
• Characters Roland, Maud, Blackadder, Leonora,
  Cropper
• Settings Brittany

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Chapter Twenty-four

• Function to provide information about the owner
  of the letters
• Focus the new discovery
• Characters Maud, Roland, Val, Euan, Toby
• Settings Lincoln

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Chapter Twenty-five

• Function to explain the relationship between Ash
  and his wife and later to show Ellens reactions.
• Focus Ellen Ashs Journal and the flashback
• Characters Ellen, Ash, Blanche
• Settings Ashs home 27th November 1889

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Chapter Twenty-six

• Function to explain Rolands thoughts and
  intentions
• Focus Rolands feelings and Job offers
• Characters Roland
• Settings Vals home

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Chapter Twenty-seven

• Function to make clear who the letters belong to
• Focus the discussion about the ownership of the
  letters
• Characters Roland, Maud, Euan, Val, Blackadder,
  Leonora
• Settings Beatrice Nests house

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Chapter Twenty-Eight

• Function to show how the story between Ash and
  LaMotte ended
• Focus content of the black box funded in Ashs
  grave
• Characters Cropper, Hildebrand Ash, Roland,
  Maud, Leonora, Blackadder, Beatrice
• Settings Ashs grave, Hodershall

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Postscript 1868

• Function to show that Randolph knew his daughter
  Maia
• Focus the meeting between Randolph and hid
  daughter
• Characters Ash, Maia
• Settings in a meadow