5/31/2023 0 Comments Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier![]() It gradually unfolds during the book, exactly what happened. She has a loutish older brother, Charlie, who constantly reminds her of a traumatic incident in her past which only the two of them know about. Maggie's father is a small-time crook and her mother is a laundress. At first the family has a hard time adjusting to life in London, but Jem soon makes friends with the streetwise Maggie, a girl of around his age, who teaches him how to get used to their working-class London neighborhood. The Kellaways decide to leave Dorsetshire after Jem's older brother dies in a fall from a tree. ![]() ![]() Jem's father, chairmaker Thomas Kellaway, moves from rural Dorsetshire to the London neighborhood of Lambeth with his family-wife Anne, teenage daughter Maisie, and twelve-year-old son Jem-when he finds work with circus owner Philip Astley, making chairs for his famous amphitheater, which was a leading entertainment venue in London at the time. ![]() In Burning Bright, author Tracy Chevalier, who is best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring, tells the story of a friendship between the poet and engraver William Blake and two children, Jem Kellaway and Maggie Butterfield, who are both fictional characters, in 1790s London. ![]()
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