Jude Morgan, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (536p) ISBN 978-0-312-34368-2
The attempted suicide of Mary Wollstonecraft opens this carefully researched, deeply imagined and gorgeously written novel about the Romantic poets, as seen by the women who loved them: Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter, Mary Shelley, who fell...
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Jude Morgan, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (378p) ISBN 978-0-312-36206-5
A clever, Jane Austen–like 19th-century English romance filled with parlor-room wit, Morgan's second novel (after Passion
) follows the sharp-tongued and attractive Caroline Fortune as she's sucked into and spit out of a scheme cooked...
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Jude Morgan, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-312-36951-4
The real-life marriage of Irish actress Harriet Smithson (1800–1854) to composer Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) is the ostensible subject of Morgan's latest (following Indiscretion
), but the two don't meet until two thirds of the...
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Jude Morgan, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $14.99 (373p) ISBN 978-0-312-64273-0
The haunting Brontës bloom like heather on the rain-drenched moors in this feverish re-creation of the Victorian English family by Morgan (pseudonym for the U.K.'s Tim Wilson), who has mined literary icons like Byron, Keats, and Shelley (Pa
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Jude Morgan. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-2500-2227-1
The pseudonymous Morgan’s twist-packed new novel (after The Secret Life of William Shakespeare) finds Valentine and Louisa Carnell under the thumb of their father, a man of “harsh, narrow, and illiberal views” whose tyrannical temper and impossible...
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