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Cornwell’s hallmarks are everywhere in this novella. For instance, Harvard is prominently featured. Characters meet at the Faculty Club—“a handsome Georgian Revival building with a grey slate roof”—and the Fogg Art Museum, where, in real life, Cornwell has helped bring paintings by the man she claims was Jack the Ripper. And of course, the token Harvard student answers a question with “unnecessary snottiness...
...relaxing quietly in a dark lecture hall looking at pictures. Maybe you can even sit in the back and take a midday nap. It’s like preschool all over again. You’ll spend much of your time at the Sackler and Fogg museums, which is great, because some serious learning gets done there. Enjoy exploring undiscovered pathways like the gruleings four-floor climb to your section in the Fogg. Feel proud of yourself as you learn to use the left staircase at the Sackler to avoid the normal pedestrian traffic as the guards check everyone?...
Cornwell worked with conservators at the Fogg after the publication of her 2002 book “Portrait of a Killer,” which identified Sickert as the Whitechapel murderer. She traveled to London with Fogg scientists, who assisted the author as she compared Sickert’s correspondence to letters allegedly written by Jack the Ripper...
...Fogg isn’t taking sides in the quarrel among historians over Jack the Ripper’s identity...
...Fogg’s Agnes Mongan Center, but that there are currently no plans to exhibit the works. However, one painting by Sickert–“Portrait of Thérèse Lessore”–is currently on display in the Fogg...