However, Louisa does wonder if some of her previous actions before coming to Wildthorn are the reason for her being there. Absolutely disgusting!Īs I said, Louisa's sexuality isn't the focus of Wildthorn, and to some extent it's even secondary. Even more so what they thought of women who wanted more. It's the fact that they believed this is what women should do, this and only this, without choice, is what really annoyed me. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against women who are stay-at-home mums/housewives - it's something I would like to do myself if I'm able - but we have the choice to either stay at home or work. There were so many times when opinions of many of the men, and even some of the women too, in the book - that women should stay at home, raising babies and looking after their husbands - really wound me up. Set in 1876, there are quite a few views about the role of women and how they should be living their lives, and a lot of this is shown through Louisa's flashbacks. There are some attendants who are nice or those that don't really care and so will let the residents do as they wish, but there are others who are so vindictive, so cruel, and take great pleasure from it. The treatement of the residents is atrocious.
Ths focus is on her incarceration at Wildthorn, why she's there, and how she's ever going to get out. This isn't an LGBTQ story in that Louisa's sexuality doesn't play a hugely important role. There is only one person at Wildthorn she trusts, the only person who may be her way to freedom. At every corner she discovers just how deeply the betrayal goes, and just how difficult it will be to escape her ill treatment.
Determined to find out who is behind her treachery, Louisa fights to never lose sight trying to get out. The more she insists she is Louisa Cosgrove, the more the attendants believe she is mad. Believing her to be a Lucy Childs, she is admitted to the asylum and locked in despite putting up a fight. However, when she arrives, Louisa is shocked to discover that she isn't at the Woodvilles', but at Wildthorn, an asylum for the mentally insane. Louisa Cosgrove is on her way to be a companion to the daughter of the Woodville family. I'm not the biggest fan of historical fiction, but I found I really enjoyed it! Jane Eagland wrote a guest post for Sex in Teen Lit Month back in 2009 about Wildthorn, so I knew I had to review Wildthorn as soon as I decided to hold LGBTQ YA Month. She must be honest with herself - and others - in order to be set free. As she unravels the betrayals that led to her incarceration, she realizes there are many kinds of prison. But her dreams become a nightmare when Louisa is sent to Wildthorn Hall: labelled a lunatic, deprived of her liberty and even her real name. Wildthorn by Jane Eagland - Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove longs to break free from her respectable life as a Victorian doctor's daughter.
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