The William Trevor Reader: “The Raising of Elvira Tremlett”
Trevor has an abiding fondness for a certain kind of gothic tale featuring a character who is tortured from a young age by a delusion that lasts their entire life. “The Raising of Elvira Tremlett” is another story in the collection of this variety, among several others, including but not limited to: and Writing those out, I notice that they all follow the same naming convention— “A Character’s Problem” or “The Problem of a Character”—and the prepositional/possessive quality often
