| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
299 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
""Joan of Arc in Chains" was previously published as GIRL X. Copyright (c) 2000 by V. Shorr"--Title verso. |
| Contents |
Midnight and Jane Austen -- Mary Shelley on the Beach -- Joan of Arc in Chains. |
| Summary |
Midnight is a study in the courage of three women--Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life. |
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"Moments of great intensity in the lives of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc, when each faced a decision that would shape her legacy. When Jane Austen's father deeded the family home to her brother, Jane was tossed to the winds, no money to her name, probably too old to be wed. At this bleak moment, she receives a proposal of marriage from a rich but boring man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision: between financial security and her writing career. When sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin eloped to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she was already pregnant. Midnight finds her pacing the Italian shore, five days after her husband has ventured out in a shaky boat on a stormy day. He has not returned. The fanatic Joan of Arc maintained faith in divine rescue until the first time she was tied to the stake. Realizing that she would burn, she recanted. In Midnight, she confronts her imminent death before facing the flames for a second time"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-299). |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
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Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. (OCoLC)fst00032929
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Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431. (OCoLC)fst00032981
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. (OCoLC)fst00036781
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Women -- Biography.
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Christian women saints -- Biography.
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Christian women saints. (OCoLC)fst00859586
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women authors. (OCoLC)fst01177198
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Shorr, Victoria.
Girl X.
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| ISBN |
9780393652789 (hardcover) |
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0393652785 (hardcover) |
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