Possession: A Romance

Chapter One•Function: to introduce storyline.

•Focus: Letters, Quotation and Roland’s research

•Characters: Roland Mitchell, Val, R.H. Ash and Christabel LaMotte

Setting: London Library; one day in September 1986 at 11.15

Chapter Two

• Function: to explain Roland’s life and his relationship with Val

• Focus: Roland’s life

• Characters: Roland, Val

• Settings: at Val’s and Roland’s House; in the evening,

Chapter Three

• Function: to introduce Christabel LaMotte.

• Focus: Roland’s research, relationship with Blackadder and Fergus

• Characters: Roland, Blackadder, Paola, Fergus

• Settings: Bloomsbury, British Museum, Ash Factory; in the afternoon

Chapter Four• Function: to introduce Maud Bailey

• Focus: quotations

• Characters: Roland, Maud

• Settings: Lincoln University, Lincoln Library, Women’s Centre; in the afternoon

Maud’s house; in the evening

Chapter Five

• Function: to explicate that the relationship between Ash and Christabel has real existed

• Focus: to create suspense and curiosity around the relationship between Ash and Christabel with the discovery of their corrispondence

• Characters: Roland, Maud, Joan Bailey, George Bailey

• Settings: Lincolnshire, Seal Court; in the morning Sir George Bailey’s house, Christabel LaMotte’s room; in the night

Chapter Six

• Function: to let the reader know about Cropper’ s research

• Focus: Cropper’s research of something new about Ash’ life

• Characters: Cropper, Mrs Daist Wapshott, Priscilla Cropper

• Settings: Mrs Daist Wapshott’s house; 3 O’Clock Ever blest House, Tresure Cabinet(New Mexico) Barret's Hotel (Piccadilly)

Chapter Seven

• Function: to introduce two characters:Beatrice Nest and Euan MacIntyre

• Focus: the letter that Roland received from Joan Bailey

• Characters: Beatrice Nest, Roland, Val, Euan MacIntyre, Cropper

• Settings: Beatrice’s house; before lunch Roland’s house; at lunch

Chapter Eight

• Function: to represent Roland and Maud’s research

• Focus: C. LaMotte’s letters

• Characters: Maud, Roland, Joan Bailey

• Settings: G. Bailey’s House (in Seal Court) Maud’s home, in the evening G. Bailey’s House

Chapter Nine

• Focus: LaMotte’s story “The Threshold”

Chapter Ten• Function: to explain the reader the relationship between C.LaMotte

and R.H.Ash

• Focus: letters between Ash and Christabel

• Characters: Randolph Henry Ash, Christabel LaMotte

Chapter Eleven

• Focus: Ash’s poem “Swammerdam”

Chapter Twelve

• Function: to create suspance

• Focus: Ash’s letters to Ellen, Ellen’s journal

• Characters: Roland, Maud, Val, Beatrice Nest, Fergus, Ellen Ahs, Blanche Glover

• Settings:Bethany in Richmond; a sunny Day in april Val’s house Beatrice nest’s house in Museum Street

Chapter Thirteen

• Function: to present the relationship between Maud and Roland and Maud and C.LaMotte

• Focus: Ash and LaMotte’s possible journey in Yorkshire

• Characters: Maud, Roland

• Settings:• The Cliff • Flamborough• Port of Whitby• Jewelry store

Chapter Fourteen

• Function: to represent the parallelism between the two love stories

• Focus: Connection of the stories

• Characters: Maud, Roland

• Settings: Yorkshire, Boggle Hole

Chapter Fiveteen

• Function: to explain the reader the relationship between Ahs and LaMotte

• Focus: the journey in Yorkshire of the two Victorian poets

• Characters: R.H.Ash, C.LaMotte

• Settings: Yorkshire

Chapter Sixteen

• Function: to present a Christabel’s poem to put her personality into a better focus through her writings

• Focus: the proem of “the fairy melusine”

Chapter Seventeen

• Function: to provide information about Fergus and Cropper’s intentions

• Focus: Fergus’ ideas

• Characters: Blackadder, Fergus, Val, Cropper

• Settings: “Ash’s factory”, Val’s home, L’Escargot, street of Soho

Chapter Eighteen

• Function: to explain the development of the plot

• Focus: dialogues

• Characters: Maud, Leonora, Blackadder, Sir George Bailey, Cropper, Paola, Byng

• Settings: • Women’s Studies Resource Centre• Maud’s home • Lincoln• Ash’s factory

Chapter Nineteen

• Function: to provide information about Blanche’s suicide.

• Focus: Sabine’s Journal

• Characters: Maud, Roland, Sir George, Ariane Le Minier, Leonora

• Settings: on a ship to France, Nantes, Finistere, Sir George’s house

Chapter Twenty

• Function: to create suspance

• Focus: Cropper’s effort to read the correspondence between Ash and LaMotte

• Characters: Cropper, Sir George, Blackadder, Ms Patel, Leonora, Shushila, Ash, LaMotte

• Settings: a City church

Chapter Twenty-one

• Focus: quotation of Ash's Mummy Possest

Chapter Twenty-Two

• Function: to show the relationship between Euan and Val

• Focus: Val and Euan’s relationship

• Characters: Val, Euan Maclntyre, Byng

• Settings: the horse races in Newmarket

Chapter Twenty-three

• Function: to make clear to the reader the development of things

• Focus: the relationship between Roland and Maud

• Characters: Roland, Maud, Blackadder, Leonora, Cropper

• Settings: Brittany

Chapter Twenty-four

• Function: to provide information about the owner of the letters

• Focus: the new discovery

• Characters: Maud, Roland, Val, Euan, Toby

• Settings: Lincoln

Chapter Twenty-five

• Function: to explain the relationship between Ash and his wife and later to show Ellen’s reactions.

• Focus: Ellen Ash’s Journal and the flashback

• Characters: Ellen, Ash, Blanche

• Settings: Ash’s home; 27th November 1889

Chapter Twenty-six

• Function: to explain Roland’s thoughts and intentions

• Focus: Roland’s feelings and Job offers

• Characters: Roland

• Settings: Val’s home

Chapter Twenty-seven

• Function: to make clear who the letters belong to

• Focus: the discussion about the ownership of the letters

• Characters: Roland, Maud, Euan, Val, Blackadder, Leonora

• Settings: Beatrice Nest’s house

Chapter Twenty-Eight

• Function: to show how the story between Ash and LaMotte ended

• Focus: content of the black box funded in Ash’s grave

• Characters: Cropper, Hildebrand Ash, Roland, Maud, Leonora, Blackadder, Beatrice

• Settings: Ash’s grave, Hodershall

Postscript 1868

• Function: to show that Randolph knew his daughter Maia

• Focus: the meeting between Randolph and hid daughter

• Characters: Ash, Maia

• Settings: in a meadow