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A.S. Byatt, Scholar Who Found Literary Fame With Fiction, Dies at 87

Possession is one of my favorite books of all time. It's great climax in a storm was a storm that actually happened and one I experienced while visiting Paris in the late 1980s. When we all read The Weight of Ink, I kept comparing the two, thinking Kadish must have read it (her book ranks highly with me too.)

A few years ago I bought Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny because it was so beautiful a physical book. On reading it I found a treasure. This was Byatt the academic.

We won't discuss the fact that I had no recollection of her relationship to Margaret Drabble. Wonder how/if she will speak about her sister.

This in the obit caught my eye:

"Ms. Byatt’s own greatest terror was being trapped by domesticity.
“I had this image,� Ms. Byatt told The Guardian in 2009, “of coming out from under and seeing the light for a bit and then being shut in a kitchen, which I think happened to many women of my generation.�

Yes, it did happen to a lot of women. If you want to read more about that period for women - which was during my lifetime - and about a Radcliffe program created to help these women create, I highly recommend .

Oh no! What a loss. A brilliant woman and one of my all-time favourite authors.

Theresa wrote: "A.S. Byatt, Scholar Who Found Literary Fame With Fiction, Dies at 87 ..."

Yes, Possession is one of my all-time favorite books too. I've read several of her other books and they weren't as special, but I did like The Matisse Stories quite a bit. I actually heard Byatt speak once years ago when her book Babel Tower, was new (that's a rather weird book.)

Same. Possession is a desert island book for me. I also loved the Virgin In The Garden series. Time for a memorial re-read next year, I think.