Patchwork Girl
Narrators
Patchwork Girl (Or, A Modern Monster) purports to be by 'Mary/Shelley, & Herself' (Mary Shelley, Shelley Jackson and the Patchwork Girl). | |
It is divided into five sections; a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story, & broken accents. | |
Each section has a different tone and is narrated in a different way. |
From: Am I Mary? Mary writes, I write, we write, but who is really writing? Ghost writers are the only kind there are. |
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The Patchwork Girl's own voice changes as it moves forward into the present. Mary Shelley and the Patchwork Girl, the two main narrators are distinctly female. Most of the narrative is first person. They state their femininity. |
From: Seam'd You may emphasize the presence of text links by using a special style, color or typeface. Or, if you prefer, you can leave needles sticking in the wounds-in the manner of tailors-with thread wrapped around them. Being seam'd with scars was both a fact of eighteenth-century life and a metaphor for dissonant interferences ruining any finely adjusted composition. (9) |
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