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01889aam a2200277 4500 001 C7C4187E18C911EFA32E7E3A4FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240523010028 008 230913s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2022949420 020 $a 1646033973 020 $a 9781646033973 040 $d IaSh $d SILO 100 1 $a Pye, Virginia. 245 14 $a The literary undoing of Victoria Swann / / $c Virginia Pye. 264 1 $a Raleigh, NC : $b Regal House Publishing, $c [2023] 300 $a 300 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "Set in Gilded Age Boston, a successful woman author of romance and adventure novels becomes a champion of women's rights as she takes on the literary establishment and finds her true voice, both on and off the page. Everything changes for Victoria Swann when she goes against her publisher's expectations and abandons her frivolous writing style in favor of telling her own story. This seemingly personal decision causes her to lose her standing with her publisher, her income, and her marriage, as she joins the legions of hard-working young women who have been her most faithful readers. Her new young Harvard educated editor becomes her surprising ally as she fights on behalf of these same women, while he dares himself to become a more liberated, modern gentleman. The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann shows how writing and reading, like all acts of defiance, can liberate us from narrow, constrained lives-and how revision in life and revision on the page are intimately entwined"-- Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20231109. 650 4 $a Women authors $x Fiction. 650 4 $a Women's rights $z Boston $z Boston $v Fiction. 651 4 $a Boston (Mass) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20240523010806.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C7C4187E18C911EFA32E7E3A4FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search