Mary Sharratt

A tale inspired by the Pendle witch hunt of 1612 finds the granddaughter of a folk healer targeted by an ambitious local magistrate who plays neighbors and family members against one another until paranoia reaches frenzied levels.

Daughters of the Witching Hill

A tale inspired by the life of the 12th-century abbess, composer and prophet depicts a young girl who upon being given to the Church rejects the order's masochistic piety and finds grace in studying books, growing herbs and rejoicing in divine visions before finding ways to liberate her sisters and herself. 20,000 first printing.

A Novel of Hildegard Von Bingen

Illuminations

A fifteenth-century Eat, Pray, Love, Revelations illuminates the intersecting lives of two female mystics who changed history--Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich. Pouring out her heart, Margery confesses that she has been haunted by visceral religious visions. Julian then offers up a confession of her own: she has written a secret, radical book about her own visions, Revelations of Divine Love. Nearing the end of her life and fearing Church authorities, Julian entrusts her precious book to Margery, who sets off the adventure of a lifetime to secretly spread Julian's words. Mary Sharratt vividly brings the medieval past to life as Margery blazes her trail across Europe and the Near East, finding her unique spiritual path and vocation. It's not in a cloistered cell like Julian, but in the full bustle of worldly existence with all its wonders and perils.

Revelations

Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands that she give up her music as a condition of their marriage. Torn by her love and in awe of his genius, how will she remain true to herself and her artistic passion? Part cautionary tale, part triumph of the feminist spirit, Ecstasy reveals the true Alma Mahler: composer, author, daughter, sister, mother, wife, lover, and muse. Mary Sharratt has finally given center stage to one of the most controversial and complex women of her time.

Ecstasy

"In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era ... Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as "one of the very few magical women that exist." But who was this woman who brought these most eminent of men to their knees? In Ecstasy, Mary Sharratt finally gives one of the most controversial and complex women of her time the center stage. Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A brand-new era of possibility for women is dawning and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands that she give up her music as a condition for their marriage. Torn by her love and in awe of his genius, how will she remain true to herself and her artistic passion? Part cautionary tale, part triumph of the feminist spirit, Ecstasy reveals the true Alma Mahler: composer, author, daughter, sister, mother, wife, lover, and muse."--

"A novel of Klimt's muse and Mahler's greatest love: Alma Mahler, the woman whose life would define and defy an era"--

a novel

A novel of Aemilia Bassano Lanier, the first professional woman poet in Renaissance England, and her collaboration and star-crossed love affair with William Shakespeare"

The Dark Lady's Mask

As the relationship between Penny and her mother, Barbara, worsens, Penny goes to work for a woman who has fled a bad marriage and intends to raise her child on her grandfather's farm, her presence changing both Penny's and Barbara's lives forever. By the author of Summit Avenue. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

The Real Minerva

Hannah Powers journeys to seventeenth-century colonial Maryland to be with her sister and, after learning that her sister has died, she falls in love with her brother-in-law despite her feeling that he is lying about her sister's fate.

The Vanishing Point

A tale inspired by the life of the twelfth-century abbess, composer, and prophet depicts a young girl who upon being given to the Church rejects the order's masochistic piety and finds grace in studying books, growing herbs, and rejoicing in divine visions.

A young immigrant finds her spiritual and sexual awakening mirrored in the fairy tales she translates.

A Novel

Summit Avenue

As the relationship between Penny and her mother, Barbara, worsens, Penny goes to work for a woman who has fled a bad marriage and intends to raise her child on her grandfather's farm, her presence changing both Penny's and Barbara's lives forever. By the author of Summit Avenue.

Roman

Der Liebesbund

Maya Chowdhry

Features women who take the law into their own hands, who defy society's expectations, put their own needs first and don't feel guilty. Characters that give Lady Macbeth, Imelda Marcos and Marina's Snow Queen a run for their money. All these stories, in one way or another, are tales of women and power. They goad readers and dare them to strip off their niceness, leave their safe haven and go out into the dark woods knowing that the most dangerously sublime thing to be encountered in that forest is themselves unleashed.

Mary Sharratt

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