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valign="top" width="680"> <img src="images/nancy_means_wright.gif" alt="Nancy Means Wright" align="right" border="0" height="41" width="371"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="680"> <p><font size="+2" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Mary Wollstonecraft Series</b></font></p> <p><font size="+1" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>The Nightmare</b></font></p> <p><img align="right" alt="The Nightmare Cover" src="images/nightmare_300w.jpg" hspace="20"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dismissed from her governess post in Ireland, Mary Wollstonecraft lands on her feet in London. After the 1792 publication of her controversial <i>Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i> (they called her a <i>hyena in petticoats</i>), she gains entrée to a circle of celebrated poets and writers (Wordsworth, Blake, Paine, et al.). But Mary becomes infatuated with artist Henry Fuseli, whose hauntingly erotic masterpiece,  The Nightmare, has been stolen, and more scandal results when she offers a ménage à trois with him and his wife. Yet when an innocent young artist is sent to notorious Newgate Prison for the theft, Mary s passionate nature does not allow her to stand aside. Her quest for the truth will lead her to a chase in and out of a madhouse, the pursuit of a young girl s abductor, and confrontations with a gaggle of rogues.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Reviews &amp; Comments:</b></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">A deft portrait of a vanished world and one of  history s most compelling women&mdash;not to be missed. <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;Stephanie Barron, author of the critically-acclaimed <i>Jane Austen Mystery Series</i></font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Overlapping mysteries thicken the plot in this fast-paced story set in a circle of famous authors and artists, whose revolutionary fervor, passions, and injured innocence lead them into dangerous waters. Wright illuminates the complicated character of Mary Wollstonecraft&mdash;scandalous feminist and self&mdash;deluded romantic with rebellious opinions, manic moodiness, and untamable energy. <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;Patricia Wynn, author of the award-winning <i>Blue Satan Mystery Series</i></font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Wright skillfully evokes the people and ideas from the age of Enlightenment in her entertaining second mystery featuring Mary Wollstonecraft (after 2010's <i>Midnight Fires</i>), which once again shows how Mary's brilliance as a freethinker could have made her an expert crime-solver. In 1792, Mary is completing the second part of her renowned <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i> when her friend, painter Henry Fuseli, finds his famous painting The Nightmare stolen. Henry suspects a critic of his work and has the young man imprisoned. But when an acquaintance is murdered and her corpse left in a tableau suggestive of the artwork, Mary finds herself investigating an intrigue steeped in politics of the day characteristic of a conservative England and a revolutionary France. Several illegitimate children of uncertain paternity provide red herrings, and walk-ons by Fuseli, poet William Blake, and chemist Joseph Priestley help ground events in credible historical reality.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;<i>Publishers Weekly</i></font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Wright captures the character of intellectual London brilliantly&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;Obsessed with trying to change her sexual attraction to Fuseli into an intellectual ideal, Mary hardly pays any mind to the crimes of the story, making her a bizarre yet intriguing sleuth&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet I found her scatterbrained intellectualism charming. I appreciate Wright s ability to model her fictional Mary Wollstonecraft with the clay of the historical person, keeping her personality and foibles and not pretending that when faced with a murder she would suddenly become Sherlock Holmes.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;Elizabeth Caulfield Felt for <i>Historical Novels Review</i></font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="+1"><a href="nightmare_excerpt.htm">Read Chapter One of <i>The Nightmare</i>.</a></font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>The Nightmare</b> was published by Perseverance Press, September, 2011. ISBN 978-1-56474-509-5. $15.95.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;</font></p> <p><font size="+1" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Midnight Fires</b></font></p> <p> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">18th century Mitchelstown Castle hums with intrigue. An impoverished but rebellious English governess (future author of <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>) seeks justice after a young Irish rebel and a roguish aristocrat die in cold blood.</font></p> <p><img align="left" alt="Midnight Fires Cover" src="images/midnight_300w.jpg" hspace="20"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>From the preface:</b></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mary Wollstonecraft shocked the eighteenth century world with her outspoken views on marriage, children, and women s rights, her advocacy of divorce reform, and her involvement with the French Revolution.&nbsp;&nbsp; She set off a tempest of scandal through her passionate love affairs, the birth of an illegitimate child, and her attempts at suicide.&nbsp;&nbsp; A "hyena in petticoats," a contemporary called her.&nbsp;&nbsp; Her short life was a continual struggle between her principles and her own sexuality.&nbsp;&nbsp; The struggle ended at the age of thirty-eight when she died giving birth to a second but, this time, legitimate daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.&nbsp;&nbsp; The latter married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and true to the Wollstonecraft blood, wrote the suspense novel, <i>Frankenstein</i>.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Wollstonecraft (pronounced <i>WALLston-croft</i>) left numerous works to the world, including her famous <i>Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>&hellip;&nbsp;&nbsp; (<a href="midnight_fires_preface.htm">Click here</a> to read more from the preface of <i>Midnight Fires</i>)</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Reviews &amp; Comments:</b></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">At the start of this captivating historical set in 1786, Mary Wollstonecraft is on her way to Ireland to become a governess, "that most humiliating of occupations." At Mitchelstown Castle in County Cork, headstrong Mary, the future mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and future women's rights advocate, is determined to pen a novel and remain above the fray of castle politics while schooling Lord and Lady Kingsboroughs' daughters. Three suspicious deaths, however, compel Mary to seek justice for a poor young sailor, the family's troubled former governess, and even an aristocrat. It appears everyone from poet George Ogle, Lady K's new flirt, to a land tenant or two has a motive in one or more of these tangled deaths. As Mary snoops around in search of the culprit, she is bound not to lose herself to the mystery, her job, or the charms of any man. Wright (Mad Season and four other Ruth Willmarth mysteries) deftly illuminates 18th-century class tensions.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, February 15, 2010</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>RICH WITH HISTORY, PERSONALITY&#8230;</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;It's reasonable, if regrettable, to believe that few 21st-century American women have ever heard of Mary Wollstonecraft, but had there been media in 18th-century Britain and Ireland comparable to today's Internet, surely this early crusader for women's rights would have been an international celebrity. Her daughter, Mary Shelley, did become famous for marrying the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and for writing "Frankenstein."</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Nancy Means Wright, a prolific, disciplined and well-informed Vermont author living in the town of Cornwall, has seized upon the true story of Wollstonecraft to create the heroine of a finely honed mystery set in Ireland at a time, roughly corresponding with the American Revolution, when the Irish suffered under the often-cruel thumb of insensitive, tradition-bound British aristocrats. It wasn't entirely Irish Catholics suppressed by British Protestants, but it was largely that way. <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Since the real Mary Wollstonecraft &#8212; once described as "a hyena in petticoats," Wright tells us &#8212; was an extremely controversial figure in the early and predictably futile struggles to liberate women from the stultifying yoke of traditional male domination, Wright had a rich field of history to harvest in gathering material for her novel. <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;<a href="hutchison.htm">Click here</a> to continue reading this review by A.C. Hutchison <i>Vermont Sunday Magazine</i>, April 4, 2010</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">A delightful new arrival on the historical mystery scene, <i>Midnight Fires</i>&#133; is an entertainingly seamy portrayal of provincial aristocrats and the day-to-day messiness of 18th century life. Add a feisty, engaging heroine in the young Mary Wollstonecraft and the result is an atmospheric & absorbing whodunit.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;Susanne Alleyn, author of <i>The Aristide Ravel Mysteries</i></font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Despite the constraints of class, culture, stays and skirts, Wright s fictionalized Mary Wollstonecraft is thoroughly engaging on her voyage of detection and self-discovery.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;Kate Flora, Edgar- nominated author of <i>Finding Amy</i></font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Midnight Fires</b> was published April, 2010 by Perseverance Press (ISBN 978-1-56474-488-3) / $14.95.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="+1"><a href="midnight_fires_preface.htm">Read the Preface to <i>Midnight Fires</i>.</a></font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="+1"><a href="midnight_fires_excerpt.htm">Read Chapter One and Two of <i>Midnight Fires</i>.</a></font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="+1"><a href="vita.htm">Read VITA, Poems Suggested by the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft.</a></font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;</font></p> <a name="events"></a> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Nancy's Events Calendar - 2012</b></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Monday, January 30: Blog talk radio, Strong Woman Writers. This can now be found in the archives.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Nancy blogs for the <a href="http://getitwriteblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Perseverance Press authors group</a> on the 4th Tuesday of each month. Drop by and leave a comment!</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> February 23-24, Center for Women s Studies & Gender Research Conference to celebrate 220th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft s <i>Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>. Keynote by scholar Janet Todd. Free. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Sunday, March 11, 2:15-4:30. Montpelier Unitarian church, Montpelier, Vt. Sisters-in-Crime Read Across New England with ten Vermont authors.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> April 11: SinC-NE panel, Storrs Library in Longmeadow, MA library. 6:30pm. panelists: Steve Liskow, Sussan Oleksiw, Marilyn Rothstein, Nancy Means Wright.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">FREE! April 19, all day at <a href="http://www.belgravehouse.com/bookstore/" target="_blank">Belgrave House</a> only neff@belgravehouse.com: the e-book edition of Nancy Means Wright s Agatha winning novel, <i>The Pea Soup Poisonings</i>. 14 other books for young people, many of them prize-winners, including middle grade and YA books by Stacy Juba and Dorothy Francis, will be free on Amazon but not on Belgrave.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">April 24-29, Malice Domestic conference: Grand Hyatt Hotel, Bethesda, Md. Sunday 8:45 panel: "Tea, Scones, and Death: Murder Comes to England" with Simon Brett, Charles Finch, Eileen Robertson, Caroline Todd, Nancy Means Wright.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">April 27-29: Malice Domestic Conference, Hyatt Regency Bethesda, MD</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Monday, May 7, 4pm: Nancy gives a talk on her Wollstonecraft novels at Queechee, Vermont library.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">October 14: Panel 1:30, Clifton Park library, NY.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;</font></p> <a name="questions"></a> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Book Group Discussion Questions for Midnight Fires</b></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Consider the relationship of governess and mistress. At Mitchelstown Castle, who prevails: Mary or Lady K?</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Describe the teacher-pupil relationship between Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret King. An 18<sup>th</sup> century governess must not infringe on any mother-daughter affection, yet Mary is ultimately dismissed for this reason. Who is to blame?</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">What do you see of 18<sup>th</sup>-century class tensions in this novel? Of religious issues? Where does Mary stand on the issue of class? Could a relationship between Mary and Liam, or young George and Fiona ever work? </font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">A few years after the end of Mary's ten months of governessing, Margaret abandons her own class, leaves her husband for a middle class man, and joins the United Irish rebels. Anglo-Irish society blamed Mary's "bad influence." Were they right to do so?</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">What hints have we here in 1786 of Mary s future groundbreaking work: A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (1792)?</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Discuss the use of the masquerade and the play Midsummer Night s Dream as a theme in this novel.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">In your opinion, does Mary make a believable sleuth?</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">A few unanswered questions: How guilty is Lord Robert K for any malice in this novel? Did James King favor the Irish rebels&mdash;or the Protestant aristocrats (of which he was one)? Was Nora guilty for drowning Fiona s child?</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Consider the tragedy of the former governess Eva, and the difficulties for governesses in general.</font></p> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Discuss the relevance of the title, Midnight Fires.</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">&nbsp;</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="bottom"> <td width="680"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">&copy; Copyright 2001 - 2011, Nancy Means Wright. All rights reserved. </font> </p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">This site maintained by<br>T.D. Bennett Group, Inc.</font></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html>