I was reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines in parallel and was struck in realization by this book how stories really are connected to each other across the time. Some elements of TWIW were taken in Fingersmith and were twisted, dusted, scrubbed to make a completely new story. Fingersmith is different but yet I can see a shrub, a picture, an act coming through all the time layers from TWIW. I'm so glad to re-read this book if only to find this understanding