Author: Donoghue, Emma,
Title: The Sealed Letter.
Description: NY, Mariner, (2008). G PB. Based on a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, a riveting, provocative novel of friends, lovers, and. divorce Victorian-style. Miss Emily, a woman of business and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively tursting of heart, is swept up by the sudden return of a once dear friend, the unahppily wed Helen Codrington and her failing marriage and obsessive affair with a young army officer. The author is an Irish novelist, playwright and historian. Her novel Slammerkin was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times and the Washington Post. Remainder mark.

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