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"Girl With a Pearl Earring" - Tracy Chevalier
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... "Girl With a Pearl Earring" - Tracy Chevalier Tracy Chevalier is unusual in having taken a specific painting and created a construction around it. How does she build a convincing impression of the characters and their circumstances in this unusual household on Papists Corner in Delft between 1664 - 1676? The novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is based around Vermeer's painting of the same name. Griet is a young girl sent to be a maid when her father, a tile painter, is put out of work. The novel follows her for two years while she works at the house and when she returns to her place of work ten years later. The novel is written from her viewpoint. The novel is set in Delft in 1664.The setting of a novel is very important. If a novel is set in a real place and the details are not correct, then anyone who has














