How much did Aunt Addie know?How much did she feel?Aunt Addiebetter known to the world at large as Adelaide Granby, the fabulously successful author of 49 volumes of gushing, melodramaticVictorian romance. Upon her death in 1912, flowers and cards pour in, including one particularly lavish set "From Stanislaw", whom her independentminded, suffragette niece Pamela decides was "darling Aunt AddiesGrande Passion."Pamela also inherits a stack of Aunt Addies secret papers, including youthful diaries and her unintentionally hilarious unpublished first novel, written when she was only 16, entitledThe Bastard of Pinsk(a "bastard", 16yearold Adelaide was sure, being "A very noble Hero of Royal Blood.")As Pamela explores these documents and talks with those who knew her aunt when, seeking the reallife source of her romantic sensibility, the reader is drawn irresistibly into the intrigue. In a novel both sentimental and brutally honest, nostalgic for and horrified by the sentiments of the past, hilarious and poignant, all at once, the brilliant Eleanor Farjeon poses surprisingly powerful questions about what makes a love "real" and how much one really needs to know to experience it...This new edition features a superb introduction by twentiethcentury womens historian Elizabeth Crawford."Naughtiness of a definitely mauve tint." Beatrice Sherman, New York Times

Binding: Paperback;340 pages; Publisher: Dean Street Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 454.75 g; Dimensions: N/A

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