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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Girl in a blue dress	Gaynor Arnold	At the end of her life, Catherine, the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens, gave the letters she had received from her husband to their daughter Kate, asking her to donate them to the British Museum, "s…	OL13657012W
Unexpected elegies	Thomas Hardy	xx, 65 p., [10] p. of plates : 19 cm	OL15507844W
Under the wide and starry sky	Nancy Horan	"In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Lo…	OL17683180W
Marina T︠S︡vetaeva, Sergeĭ Ėfron	Ariadna Ėfron	256 pages : 21 cm	OL19718006W
Girl in a blue dress	Gaynor Arnold	Set in the Victorian era, this is the story of the widow of a celebrity author. The funeral of Alfred Gibson has taken place at Westminster Abbey. His wife of 20 years, Dorothea, has not been invited…	OL19930818W
House of exile	Evelyn Juers	"In 1933 the writer and political activist Heinrich Mann, meticulously dressed in a suit, starched collar and bow tie, escaped from Germany carrying nothing more than an umbrella and a briefcase fill…	OL19946938W
Constance	Franny Moyle	Part of a gilded couple, Constance Wilde was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's rights. A founding member of the magical society The Golden Dawn, her pi…	OL19958150W
Z	Therese Fowler	When beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre meets Lieutenant Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at a country club dance, he isn't rich or settled; no one knows his people; and he wants, of all…	OL19967356W
Mrs. Poe	Lynn Cullen	Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her inte…	OL19969814W
Cinderella and the carpetbagger	Grace Robbins	"The 1960s and '70s were decades like no others -- radical, experimental, libertine. Grace Robbins chronicles the rollicking good times, peppering her memoir with anecdotes of her encounters with lum…	OL23273410W
Aber die Liebe	Matthias Wegner	Als eigensinnige und viel besungene Gefährtin des Jugendstildichters Richard Dehmel ging sie in die Geschichte ein und wurde - fast - mit ihm vergessen: Ida Dehmel. Matthias Wegner zeichnet mit dem L…	OL2819235W
Shakespeare's wife	Germaine Greer	Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare's will has been inte…	OL3557558W
Painted Shadow	Carole Seymour-Jones	"By the time she was committed to an asylum in 1938, five years after T. S. Eliot deserted her, Vivienne Eliot was a lonely, distraught figure. Shunned by literary London, she was the "neurotic" wife…	OL4287580W
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda	F. Scott Fitzgerald	"Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years. Here …	OL468387W
A ticket to the circus	Norris Church Mailer	A great American love story, this warm, funny, revealing memoir introduces the world to Norman Mailer's greatest inspiration, his wife of more than thirty years. Like Zelda Fitzgerald before her, Nor…	OL481009W
Parallel lives	P. Rose,Phyllis Rose	In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John…	OL489373W
The importance of being Constance	Joyce Bentley	the story of the beautiful and courageous wife of Oscar Wilde	OL5360697W
Zelda	Nancy Milford	A biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald	OL5609183W
Living at the edge : a biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen / Michael Squires and L…	Michael Squires	"Living at the Edge follows the separate lives of Lawrence and Frieda up to their first meeting in 1912. Tracing their new life together, it depicts their grateful escape from the English Midlands; t…	OL5916029W
Lyrics of sunshine and shadow	Eleanor Alexander	"On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early-twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper…	OL6208359W