Last Words
Ellen Seligman’s editing was a kind of alchemy—to the end, says the author of the Giller nominated By Gaslight, the last book she edited. September 2016
In the last year of her life, before her sudden passing in March 2016, Ellen Seligman edited two novels: Michael Helm’s excellent After James, and my second novel, By Gaslight.
By Gaslight is set in Victorian London, and tells the story of the real-life detective William Pinkerton, some six months after his father’s…