6/3/2023 0 Comments The New Life by Tom Crewe![]() ![]() While discussing the book's inspiration with Shelf Awareness, Crewe explained that, approximately a decade before The New Life was published, he had "read Phyllis Grosskurth's 1964 biography of John Addington Symonds and became interested in the aspects of the 19th-century gay experience" and later "realized that the early 1890s were actually an optimistic time for people like Symonds." This realization sparked his interest in writing a novel based on that optimism, as well as how the downfall of Oscar Wilde impacted it. ![]() The New Life was inspired by "the true story of John Addington Symonds and Henry Havelock Ellis, who worked together on one of the first medical texts about human sexuality," Sexual Inversion. ![]() The work is a historical imagining of LGBT rights before the late 20th century gay rights movement. It is a work of historical fiction set in 1890s London and tells the story of two men collaborating on a study favouring civil rights for what were then called "sexual inverts" and now as the gay community. The New Life is the 2023 debut novel of British writer Tom Crewe. ![]()
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