Colleen Quinn
Girl by the Road at Night
In Girl by the Road at Night, two unlikely souls come together for a short time, simply because they both…
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939
Uncommon Arrangements describes the marriages of several famous writers as works in progress. These husbands and wives struggled valiantly with…
A Dead Language
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton is the naval lieutenant who abandons Madam Butterfly in Puccini’s famous opera. A Dead Language, sequel to…
The Concord Quartet
In the 1830s Concord, Massachusetts, was only a small farming town, but it managed to attract the most extraordinary minds…
The Interpretation Of Murder
In 1909, Sigmund Freud paid his one and only visit to the United States. He referred to Americans as “savages”…
Sex with the Queen : 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
It’s not easy to be queen! Royal marriages are arranged for political advantage, not for the happiness of the…
Mountain Shadows
It gets cold in the mountains. If you’re poor and tubercular, like Alice Devlin, it gets even colder. Alice journeys…
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