Macneal, Elizabeth
The doll factory / Elizabeth Macneal - London : Picador, 2020. ©2019. - 379 pages ; 20 cm.
First published in 2019 by Picador.
Londen, 1850. On a crowded street, the dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. Louis is a Pre-Raphaelite painter who yearns to have his work displayed in the Royal Academy, and he is desperate for Iris to be his model. Iris agrees, on the condition that he teaches her to paint. Dreaming of freedom, Iris throws herself into this new life of art and love, unaware that she has caught the eye of a second man. Silas Reed is a curiosity collector, enchanted by the strange and beautiful. After seeing Iris at the site of the Great Exhibition, he finds he cannot forget her. As Iris's world expands, Silas's obsession grows. It is only a matter of time before they meet again...
9781529002430
Artists -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
FIC MAC
The doll factory / Elizabeth Macneal - London : Picador, 2020. ©2019. - 379 pages ; 20 cm.
First published in 2019 by Picador.
Londen, 1850. On a crowded street, the dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. Louis is a Pre-Raphaelite painter who yearns to have his work displayed in the Royal Academy, and he is desperate for Iris to be his model. Iris agrees, on the condition that he teaches her to paint. Dreaming of freedom, Iris throws herself into this new life of art and love, unaware that she has caught the eye of a second man. Silas Reed is a curiosity collector, enchanted by the strange and beautiful. After seeing Iris at the site of the Great Exhibition, he finds he cannot forget her. As Iris's world expands, Silas's obsession grows. It is only a matter of time before they meet again...
9781529002430
Artists -- Fiction.
Women artists -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
FIC MAC