Results for "Porsella, Madeline"

Choose a career or choose a family: Ward's 1877 novel exposes and eviscerates the false dichotomy of modern womanhood

Avis Dobell is a talented young painter on the rise, working to establish herself, when she meets professor Philip Ostrander. Though she has sworn to never marry and at first rejects...

Oliver Wendell Holmes confronts humanity's original sin in this medical case study-cum-romance

Elsie Venner is your typical teenage girl. But unlike her classmates at the Apollinean Female Institute, her mother was bitten by a rattlesnake while pregnant. Not girl, not yet a woman and also not quite...

For fans of body horror, Everett pens the freakiest metaphysical thriller you've never heard of

Frances Bethune is desperate to lose weight before her husband's return from India--in just two weeks. On the advice of a bad-breathed spirit, Frances undertakes a slenderizing's ance. While she succeeds...

Often compared to Huysmans' A Rebours, The Hill of Dreams is a meditation on alienation and the lure of the fantastical

From his earliest literary experimentation, Arthur Machen refused to sit in his own time, clawing his way back to a past inhabited by false gods and terrifying fairies. The Hill of...

Religion, love and revolution collide in this swashbuckling saga of Risorgimento Italy

Set in Italy during the Risorgimento, The Gadfly is a thrilling tale of betrayal and revolution. It follows the adventures and misadventures of a mysterious satirist, a hardworking lady radical and a Catholic...

Stoddard leaves little to the imagination in this startling New England bildungsroman about a strange girl and her even stranger sister

Cassandra and Veronica Morgeson are wild girls. Adored by men, hated by women and feared by their parents--they break the mold. Veronica refuses to leave the family...