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The Sylph

By Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (ed. Jonathan Gross) - Published 2007

Genres:

Literary

The Sylph was published anonymously in 1779, four years after Georgiana Spencer married the fifth Duke of Devonshire and thus became one of the ...Read Review

Eleni, or Nobody

By Rhea Galanaki - Published 2003

Genres:

Literary

Because women painters were not taken seriously in the late 19th century, Eleni Boukoura disguised herself as a man in order to pursue ...Read Review

King of Odessa

By Robert A. Rosenstone - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Very little is known about the period in Isaac Babel’s life from August to November 1936, when he took his last trip to ...Read Review