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Hearts and hearths: Anne Sebba ponders some mysteries--or coincidences--that link the adult experiences of Frances Hodgson Burner with the lives of American women who came to Britain in search of marriage in her newly reissued 1907 novel The Shuttle.(FRON

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From: History Today
Date: 20070901
Author:Sebba, Anne

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO Frances Hodgson Burnett, the well-known children's author, published a hard-hitting novel for adults about an unhappy transatlantic marriage. It was called The Shuttle, a reference to the numerous steamships that for over fifty years had been carrying rich American women to the Old World in search of Old World customs, clothes and culture but also of Old World husbands and houses. The ship on which the fictional Vanderpoel sisters, Rosalie and Bettina travelled, sailed between 'a gulf broader and deeper' than the thousands of miles of sea it crossed.

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