Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is the author of the novels After Me Comes the Flood and The Essex Serpent. Her latest, Melmoth, is out in paperback next month.

Letter

Not a Woman in Flight

3 January 2019

I was surprised to find Edmund Gordon so disarrayed by the idea that a Victorian girl could have imagined the world to be peopled with women medics, engineers, socialists and so on (LRB, 3 January). He is referring to my novel The Essex Serpent, which he believes ‘giddy with anachronism’. The novel doesn’t specify the year in which it is set, but the reader can assume it is the late 1890s, since...

Helter-Skelter: ‘Melmoth’

Edmund Gordon, 3 January 2019

Sarah Perry​ was raised a Strict Baptist, with a number of exotic beliefs – in the literal existence of the devil, the creation of the earth in six days, the sinfulness of women wearing...

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