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[ursula]

Dear World,

Why didn't you tell me that Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote novels for adults? Or, for that matter, that she had a scandalous affair and was divorced twice?

This novel was published in 1896. THE HEROINE HAS PREMARITAL SEX AND THEN KILLS HER SEDUCER ACCIDENTALLY WITH A LEAD-WEIGHTED RIDING CROP AND WALLS UP HIS BODY IN HER CELLAR. And she marries the man she loves and lives happily ever after as the perfect wife with six kids.

I don't care how much it talks about Christ, this is revolutionary, I tell you, revolutionary. Damn you, Trollope! Damn you, Barren Ground!

[Same game.]

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[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

Hey. I've read this--it was one of the novels linked via the UPenn Online Books Page that improved downtime at work ten years ago.

(Is this cija? Probably I will find that someone's already ID'd the style in the comments--haven't looked.)

[ursula]

Did they have any of Hodgson's other adult novels? I read the UW's archival photocopy, but I did pick this one via online plot summary, and ILL should net me others.

(You are quite right.)

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

I think so (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Burnett%2c%20Frances%20Hodgson%2c%201849%2d1924)--a couple of those look likely.