Sealed Letter
by:
Emma Donoghue (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781447205975 (1447205979)
ASIN: 1447205979
Publish date: 2011-10-01
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Feminism,
Glbt,
Queer,
Lesbian,
Fiction,
Historical
I'd heard good things about Emma Donoghue but as her historical fiction is usually set in the Victorian period (a period I don't have much interest in) I doubted very much that I would ever read a book by her. But then, on a whim, at a sale, I picked up this one. And boy, am I glad I did as I thin...
It is 1864 and Emily ‘Fido’ Faithful is an independent woman with a royally approved printing business and a good reputation in the women’s movement. When she bumps into Helen Codrington on the streets of London it seems an accidental reunion after a separation of seven years. Helen is married to th...
SynopsisAfter a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido has become a successful woman of business ...
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