The Margaret-Ghost

by Barbara Novak

This fascinating novel by Barbara Novak blends painstaking scholarship and compelling fiction writing as it follows the lives of two women, one the subject of the other's research. Tenure-track professor Angelica Bookbinder is researching a book on the woman Henry James called the Margaret-Ghost: the brilliant, New England feminist Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), who was a friend and contemporary to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Horace...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807615242
• ISBN13: 9780807615249
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Chronicling the search for love

The Margaret-Ghost by novelist Barbara Novak is an engaging and original story about the lives of two women, one of whom happens to be the research subject of the other. 19th century Europe and 20th century Boston are twin settings in this reflective and complex novel chronicling the search for love, the travails of male-female relationships, and the question of whether certain patterns of behavior can transcend time. The Margaret-Ghost is superb reading and would make a welcome and popular addition to the community library fiction shelf.