Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning

by Victoria Shorr

Book Overview

Midnight is a study in the courage of three women--Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393652785
• ISBN13: 9780393652789
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.4"