This paper reviews the
novel, "
Possession" by A.S. Byatt, which revolves around two contemporary scholars, Maud Bailey and
Roland Mitchell, who are each immersed in the study of one of two Victorian poets and who happen to discover evidence of a previously unimagined relationship between their subjects, Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel La Motte. In particular, it analyzes how the title works very well for the book, since the word "
possession" appears in the book many times and has multiple meanings; it relates to the characters and the main plot of the
novel.