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- Author: Laurie R. King
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Introduction
On August 4, 2015, one hundred years to the day after World War I
erupted onto the headlines of newspapers the world around, Mary Russell’s
War began to appear as weekly instalments in a blog kept by Laurie R.
King. The journal, like everything else Miss Russell writes, is both
autobiography and cool reporting, laced throughout with a vein of her
distinctive dry humour. Here, young Mary’s commitment to recording the
progress of world events weaves in and out of her own personal narrative,
the two bleeding into each other until the stories of the girl and the century
begin eerily to mesh. The vivid words of the journal, combined with the
photographs, newspaper clippings, post-cards, and such that Miss Russell
slipped among its pages, give us a taste not only of the times, but of this
young woman’s extraordinary mind—and of the rich and eventful life that
is before her.
Since the 1994 publication of the first Russell memoir, The
Beekeeper’s Apprentice, a stream of stories (all of them under the
“authorship” of Laurie R. King, for reasons explained by Miss Russell
elsewhere[1]) have continued to uncover the remarkable adventures of this
young woman and her partner-turned-husband Sherlock Holmes. In
addition to the “novels” that make up Miss Russell’s memoirs, an
assortment of supplemental material in the form of “short stories” and the
like offer insight into previously unexplored corners of their lives[2].
And yet, it is equally striking how often Miss Russell chooses not to
reveal matters. Her relationship with parents and brother, for example, is
given in small (though illuminating) vignettes; details are sparse of her
work with the psychiatric doctor Leah Ginsberg; one searches in vain for
the precise locations of houses, or even their physical characteristics.
Yes, one is forced to read between the lines, here as elsewhere in the
Russell Memoirs. A reader even begins to wonder if this is not a large part
of their appeal: one gets the very clear sensation, even when Russell is little
more than a child, that privacy is paramount, and that any conclusions
regarding her person will require a great deal of research, a thorough
analysis, and a lot of just plain investigation.
As is, on reflection, only appropriate.
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