Rose: Mining and Murder in mid-Victorian England
Have you ever wanted to go down a mine shaft? Like miners do, on an open lift? Plunging a mile down into the bowels of the earth? With highly combustible methane gas and its deadly chemical cousin carbon monoxide a threat at every instant? Me neither. But when I picked up Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Rose, set in the Lancashire coal mining town of Wigan, I couldn’t stop reading. The story chronicles the return to England of the mining engineer […]
Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, literature, women