Product Description: A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke transformed herself from a neglected wife into a figure of incredible resilience and social vision...read more

Product Description: Elaine Netherlands is taking charge of her life—with zest. Divorced, independent, on the brink of a new career, she feels exhilarated by possibility. Then her nineteen-year-old step-daughter, Nola, shows up at her door after three years of silence...read more

Product Description: A moving epic novel about the Addis family follows the lives of a butcher, Charles, and his wife Etta, their two children, and Rose, the grandchild who must face the demands of their past.ROSE WAS BORN TO A FAMILY OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN...read more

Product Description: Irv Bender knew the meaning of devotion—he had sacrificed his own chance for a college education so that his beloved brother Babe could go. But it is Irv, not Babe, who will become the family achiever. As half-owner of a summer camp in the Poconos, he earns more than enough to become his brother’s keeper…and a discreetly benevolent “uncle” to his partner, Mandy Mershheimer, the novelist; his talented, attractive niece, Suzanne; and his protégé and assistant, Larry Driscoll...read more

Torn between her loyalty to her close friend Alice Blanders Russo and her attraction to Leo, Alice's live-in lover, Betsy Lewis flees her Rome household and reassesses her life by confronting her past

Product Description: The story of two great English poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time - and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but intensified...read more

Product Description: Acclaimed biographer Julia Markus has written an unprecedented and illuminating portrait of the brilliant, tortured, and controversial James Anthony Froude -- the quintessential Victorian, father of modern biography, historian, diplomat, and prodigal son...read more

An intriguing study of the forgotten lives of Victorian women explores the world of American actress Charlotte Cushman, Jane Welsh Carlyle, a famed London literary hostess and wife of Thomas Carlyle, and others who led vibrant, independent, and meaningful lives despite the restrictions and conventions of the Victoria era. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

In an elegant format, an edition of the nineteenth-century poet's immortal love sonnets is complemented by the tender love letters and notes exchanged between her and poet Robert Browning over a twenty-month period. Reprint.

Product Description: Book by Markus, Julia, Reid, Barbara

Product Description: Novel by Julia Markus, " Uncle"