Miss Herbert
The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert, his niece''s governess, translated the novel into English. But this translation has since been lost.
Miss Herbert provides a map to the imaginary count...
The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert, his niece''s governess, translated the novel into English. But this translation has since been lost.
Miss Herbert provides a map to the imaginary count...
