Serial Readers Book Club: “The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8”

For this session the Serial Readers Book Club at Bookstore1Sarasota takes up the eighth volume of Beth Brower's The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, a series of diary-style novels that begins in London in 1883. Emma records the oddities of her London parish, St. Crispian's, in a wry first person, and readers have set Brower beside Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and P. G. Wodehouse. Volume 8 appeared in 2024, five years after the first volumes, and Bloomsbury has begun reissuing the early books in Britain.