Alice Hoffman is the author of 30 acclaimed works of fiction including Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things. Her new novel, The Marriage of Opposites, is set in the 1800s in Paris and on the tropical island of St Thomas and tells the story of the rebellious Rachel, and how her son, Camille Pissarro, became a great artist. Hoffman was born in New York and now lives near Boston.
It’s clear that you wanted to get into the mindset of what it was like to be a woman in the 1800s.
I really did. When I first read Wuthering Heights I didn’t understand why Cathy couldn’t marry the person she loved. I didn’t understand the property laws, and the constraints on women. Even though laws have changed we still have so many social constraints and so many rules that we set for ourselves and that society sets for us. It’s very difficult still to be a woman.
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