Some are fictional characters but others existed in real-life such as the elderly owner of Macy’s department store and John Jacob Astor, heir to the vast Astor family fortune. Morgan gives a lively account of his fellow passengers who are a mix of wealthy industrialists, dignitaries and socialites. … rearing on splayed legs … its glittering head vibrating inside its steel helmet, its thunderous intestines of lubricated pistons and crank-shafts pounding and pumping in perpetual motion But he can also access parts of the ship that few others get to see, like the luxury cars stashed in the holds and the engine houses that resemble a writhing monster: His connections mean he can move easily amongst the upper-class passengers, showing us their eccentricities and minor intrigues. The youngster is invaluable as a narrator.
Morgan is a 22-year-old orphan adopted by the family of the banking magnate J. The events of April 15 and the catastrophic outcome is a familiar story but Bainbridge gives it a fresh perspective with her focus on the personal experience of one young Anglo-American passenger. For most of her writing career she’d focused on fiction with a psychological, sometimes macabre dimension, but this1996 novel saw her venture into the realm of historical fiction.Įveryman for Himself re-imagines life on board the RMS Titanic as it makes its fatal voyage across the Atlantic in 1912. Everyman for Himself marked a change of direction for Beryl Bainbridge.
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