Midnight

Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning

Victoria Shorr

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English

Norton
12 April 2019

Biography; Biography: general

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.

By: Victoria Shorr
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 459g
ISBN: 9780393652789
ISBN 10: 0393652785
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 12 April 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victoria Shorr's first novel, Backlands, was named one of Booklist's top-ten first novels of 2015. She cofounded the Archer School for Girls in California and the Pine Ridge Girls' School in South Dakota, the first independent, culturally based, college-prep school for girls on a Native reservation in America. She lives in Pacific Palisades, California.

Reviews for Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning

[A] gripping, imaginative foray into the lives of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc, as each faced a life-altering event.--Devoney Looser, Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University and author of The Making of Jane Austen A fresh and instructive investigation of three iconic lives and minds.