"The Lady and the Luddite" by Linden Salter. [review - radio script]
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2002-08-19
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Dooley, Gillian Mary
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"The Lady and the Luddite" is an historical romance by English-born Northern
Territory writer Linden Salter. Salter has taken characters and incidents from
Charlotte Bronte’s second novel "Shirley", and shaped an exciting tale of class
revolt and forbidden love, set in Yorkshire in Regency times. The Industrial
Revolution, and its violent opposition by the Luddites, working men driven to
destroy the machines which are stealing their jobs, forms the setting for both
novels. However, while Bronte’s heroine, the heiress Shirley Keeldar, marries
against the wishes of her family, her husband is an educated man of a good
though impoverished family; whereas Salter’s Shirley falls for a working-class
hero, a Luddite named Tom Mellor.
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Dooley, Gillian 2002. Review of "The Lady and the Luddite" by Linden Salter. 'Writers’ Radio, Radio Adelaide', recorded on 19 August 2002.