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	Sarah Waters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarah Waters (born in Wales, 1966) is a British novelist.
		Her most famous work is the Victorian lesbian novel Tipping the Velvet (1998), which was adapted into a three-part television serial, also called Tipping the Velvet, for BBC Two in 2002.
		Waters has degrees in English Literature from the University of Kent (BA), Lancaster University (MA), and from the University of London's Queen Mary and Westfield College (as it was known in her time) (PhD).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarah_Waters (232 words)

	BBC - Drama - Fingersmith - Sarah Waters Profile
		Sarah Waters' unique ability to breathe new life into the Victorian age has been met with critical acclaim for all three of her thrilling novels.
		Sarah started writing fiction in 1995, after completing her PhD thesis on lesbian and gay literature from the late 19th century onwards.
		Sarah's second novel Affinity, which follows the life of an imprisoned spiritualist in one of London's most notorious jails, won the Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2000.
	www.bbc.co.uk /drama/fingersmith/sarah_waters.shtml (370 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Books - Sarah Waters interview
		Sarah Waters: I found it a very liberating process because when you're writing academic work you're dependent on footnoting your work and suddenly to be able to give all that up and just make things up and create a world rather than do a critique of somebody else's work, was fantastically liberating.
		Sarah Waters: With the three books I have written so far, increasingly the plot has dominated at the start because I have had to work it out in advance of writing anything at all, and then it does feel a bit like painting by numbers.
		Sarah Waters: I didn't with Tipping The Velvet and there are plans to dramatise the other two novels, but I can't foresee me having a role in that process and to be honest, I've never really wanted one.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/books/features/sarah-waters-interview.shtml (1404 words)

	MPR Books - "Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters
		Fingersmith is, like Waters' other novels, rich in period detail, depicting the grim slums of 19th-century London, the terrifying depths of a Victorian lunatic aasylum, and the life of the gentry in the English countryside.
		Waters was born in Pembrokeshire, in southwest Wales.
		Waters taught for a time at the Open University, a national educational institution offering undergraduate schooling to mature students from a range of social backgrounds.
	www.mpr.org /www/books/titles/waters_fingersmith.shtml (480 words)

	Sarah Waters Affinity Reviewed by Serena Trowbridge
		Waters earned a certain amount of notoriety after Tipping the Velvet, particularly after it was televised in Britain, but this novel is less of a romp and more of a somber parade of unhappy lives searching for happiness.
		Although the narrative is framed in two diaries, one of the events leading to Selina's imprisonment and the other detailing Margaret's life, the reader remains in the dark as to the true course of events until the last minute, and it makes unputdownable reading.
		The novel has a particular value beyond the emotional, however, and that is Waters' preoccupation with the rise of feminism in Victorian Britain, and she states her case for this clearly without ever preaching or appearing to moralise.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/waters-affinity.htm (510 words)

	Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - read review
		Waters has placed her story during this time in a way that some critics compare to Charles Dickens.
		Waters even accomplishes a walk through London detailing all the things you might see if you traveled through the city during the 1800s.
		Sarah Waters was born in 1966 in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/waters.htm (1118 words)

	Waters_Phil_I_Children
		Philemon Waters II was born 8 October 1711 in Stafford County, Virginia.
		Sarah Waters Tackett left a will when she died in November 1756, but it was among the many papers lost or destroyed in Prince William County.
		Waters and Sarah his wife have set their hands and seals in presence of John Peyton and Charles Harding.
	members.tripod.com /jeanday1/Waters_Phil_I_Children.htm (983 words)

	Affinity by Sarah Waters
		Waters other novels, 'Tipping the Velvet' and 'Fingersmith.' While it is still a good read, it leaves something wanting in the end.
		Waters is able to create a strange moody literary landscape--one that would never be in a bestseller.
		Waters crafted the beginning and middle of the novel very painstakingly--I appreciated the craft but at times I wanted a little more variation in pace.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Affinity-1573228737.htm (1598 words)

	The Big Gay Read - Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966 and lives in London.
		Sarah Waters is a wonderful writer and consummate story teller who knows exactly how to captivate an audience.
		With Tipping the Velvet, and her subsequent novels, Sarah Waters has succeeded in making the lesbian ‘period drama’ genre into a mainstream literary experience which now excites and thrills a vast audience.
	www.queerupnorth.com /biggayread/bgrrecommends/sarah_waters.php (366 words)

	The Sarah Waters LJ Community
		Waters can write narratives which have one glued to the book, eager to find out what happens next, so it's a real shame that she's written something which was almost an effort to finish.
		UK Sarah Waters fans might be interested to know that you can save £3 off he cover price of 'The Night Watch' if you pre-order online with Diva Direct.
		There's a little video of Sarah Waters at Meet the Author, in which she talks about her new novel, The Night Watch.
	community.livejournal.com /sarahwaters (1591 words)

	Sarah Waters: Interview: Virago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sarah Waters explains why she pilfers from the past to produce utterly contemporary lesbian fiction.
		But Waters twists the familiar scenario from a sly, sideways angle, focusing on young opportunist Sue, who becomes lady's maid to the vulnerable Maud Lilly as part of a marriage plot devised by the villainous Gentleman.
		Waters explains that she thinks lesbian writers and critics should take more notice of the images 19th-century pornographers have left them.
	www.virago.co.uk /virago/meet/waters_interview.asp?TAG=B16GUX5X6X992X866XYOWN&CID=virago (949 words)

	Powell's Books - The Night Watch: A Novel by Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Thursday, March 30th 2006 07:30 PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside, Portland, OR From Sarah Waters, the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith, comes The Night Watch, a novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity.
		There are feats of heroism, epic and quotidian, and tragedies both enormous and personal, but the emotional interiors of her characters that Waters captures with absolute and intimacy.
		At the same time, Waters is absolute control of a narrative that offers up subtle surprises and exquisite twists, even as it depicts the impact grand historical event on individual lives.
	www.powells.com /biblio/62-159448905x-0 (241 words)

	Fingersmith - Sarah Waters - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002, Virago Press) was nominated for both the Man Booker prize and the Orange prize, which is no slight achievement and which is fully deserved by this gripping and complex story.
		The den of thieves, the lunatic asylum and the creepy mansion...
		First of all, I'm a huge Sarah Waters fan, simply finding her to be one of the most exciting young writers working today.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/fingersmith-sarah-waters (300 words)

	Moviepie.com's Slice - Sarah Waters chats about BBC2's Tipping the Velvet adaptation
		Though this recognition garnered much attention for the writer, it turned out that it was Waters' first novel, Tipping the Velvet, that was suddenly grabbing all the headlines in the British media.
		Waters, as she blew through Seattle for the North American premiere of Tipping the Velvet at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
		She was on an extensive book tour for Fingersmith, but managed to squeeze in a visit to the film festival, before flying back to the UK the next day in time to attend the Booker Prize awards ceremony.
	www.moviepie.com /filmfests/sarah_waters.html (1282 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fingersmith: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fingersmith is the third slice of engrossing lesbian Victoriana from Sarah Waters.
		Although lighter and more melodramatic in tone than its predecessor Affinity, this hypnotic suspense novel is awash with all manner of gloomy Dickensian leitmotifs: pickpockets; orphans; grim prisons; lunatic asylums; "laughing villains" and, of course, "stolen fortunes and girls made out to be mad".
		Waters' penchant for Byzantine plotting can get a bit exhausting but even at its densest moments--and remember this is smoggy London circa 1862--it remains mesmerising.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1860498833 (632 words)

	Sarah Waters: Profile: Virago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sarah Waters is also the winner of The South Bank Show Award.
		Waters is an author to cherish, and this is probably her finest achievement yet' Justine Jordan, GUARDIAN
		Sarah Waters is a great writer for now and the future.
	www.virago.co.uk /virago/meet/waters_profile.asp?TAG=BKWZYX7X5969X64X7HQ8RM&CID=virago (726 words)

	Rulifson Genealogy
		When Sarah was age unknown and Thomas Waters was age unknown they became the parents of Mehitable Waters [1] 1697.
		When Sarah was age unknown and Thomas Waters was age unknown they became the parents of Sarah Waters 1699.
		When Sarah was age unknown and Thomas Waters was age unknown they became the parents of Mehitable Waters [2] 1701.
	www.rulifson.org /roots/i0000456.htm (787 words)

	Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Waters started writing fiction in 1995, shortly after completing her thesis, which was on lesbian and gay literature.
		Waters’ inspiration for the novel came from the actual plot structure of the novel: “I was particularly interested in a certain kind of fiction that was around in the 1860s by such writers as Wilkie Collins.
		Waters has decided to set aside the Victorian age for the moment and move to a different era: the 1940s.
	www.ivenus.com /culture/books/features/CU-books-Fingersmith-wk98.asp (1171 words)

	Virago Forum - Sarah Waters's Novels News/Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sarah Waters (born 1966) is a British novelist.
		SARAH WATERS will be appearing at the York Lesbian Arts Festival on 28-29 October.
		Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victoria London, returns with a stunning new book that marks a departure from the 19th century.
	www.multilingual-matters.com /virago/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=72 (887 words)

	Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, 1860495249, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Waters has so far resisted such calls and she is right to do so.
		Told from the point of view of Nan, Sarah Waters makes us feel just as Nan must in every situation, from the jaded despair and loathing of a bad break up, to the wonder and adoration of a new love.
		This is the second Sarah Waters book I have read (the first being Affinity) and I found it captivating.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/1860495249 (1311 words)

	Fingersmith by Sarah Waters reviewed in AnotherSun by Kate Evans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Waters, however, has more tricks up her sleeve than a magician and just when you think you've got the measure of her, she'll pull the certainty right from under your feet.
		Waters gives us fully-rounded female characters from all sections of society who show an amazing facility for doing whatever it takes in the pursuit of love and self-preservation.
		Waters says her next novel will not be set in the Victorian age but in the 1940s.
	psjk.homestead.com /Fingersmith.html (958 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Fingersmith \| Sarah Waters
		Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways....But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and surprises.
		The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "consummate skill" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career.
		Sarah Waters, 35, was born in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, United Kingdom.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/fingersmith.html (1085 words)

	ITALICS: review > fingersmith, sarah waters
		Sarah Waters evokes Dickens’ literary style in her Victorian crime novel, and painstakingly recreates a believable picture of London in the past.
		Sarah Waters is ambitious in attempting to write a novel as robust as one of Dickens’.
		Still, one can't help but be enchanted by Sarah Waters’ beguiling tale of people looking for love, finding it, losing it and then discovering it once more.
	www.purplepens.com /inreview/review_fingersmith (617 words)

	Fingersmith - Sarah Waters - Penguin Group (USA)
		The New York Times Book Review has called Sarah Waters a writer of "startling power" and The Seattle Times has praised her work as "gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and the senses." Fingersmith marks a major leap forward in this young and brilliant career.
		“Waters slowly and inexorably builds the tension in this hard-to-put-down novel, which is full of atmospheric details about grand houses, petty slums and Victorian madhouses.
		“Sarah Waters unveils enough secrets, reversals and revelations to keep the most demanding fans of Victorian fiction happy and enthralled, bowing to the great novels of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens in ways that are both fanciful and intelligent...Skillful plotting and plenty of surprises.”—New Statesman
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_1573229725,00.html?... (1051 words)

	Affinity by Sarah Waters, 186049692X, Lowest Book Price Finder
		But her current journal, she convinces herself, is to be very different from her last one, which "took as long to burn as human hearts, they say, do take".
		Sarah Waters is a great find for me, I loved her previous book, 'Tipping The Velvet' and have been eagerly awaiting her second novel for some time.
		But Sarah Waters' imagery and use of language is cleverly manipulative.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/186049692X (1443 words)

	Tipping the Velvet, by Sarah Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The heroine of Sarah Waters's audacious first novel knows her destiny, and seems content with it.
		A lesser author would have been content to stop her story there, but Waters has much more in mind for her buttonholing heroine, and for us.
		In brief, her Everywoman with a sexual difference goes from success onstage to heartbreak to a stint as a male prostitute (necessity truly is the mother of invention) to keeping house for a brother and sister in the Labour movement.
	www.bonster.com /tipping.html (331 words)

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