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02564aam a22004338i 4500 001 A7AC136646E711E99BA2BC3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20190315010032 008 181114t20192019nyu b 000 0ceng c 010 $a 2018052644 020 $a 0393652785 020 $a 9780393652789 035 $a (OCoLC)1037807234 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d TOH $d UKMGB $d QQ3 $d FM0 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a CT3202 $b .S56 2019 082 00 $a 920.72 $2 23 100 1 $a Shorr, Victoria, $e author. 245 10 $a Midnight : $b three women at the hour of reckoning / $c Victoria Shorr. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2019] 300 $a 299 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a ""Joan of Arc in Chains" was previously published as GIRL X. Copyright (c) 2000 by V. Shorr"--Title verso. 520 $a "Moments of great intensity in the lives of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc, when each faced a decision that would shape her legacy. When Jane Austen's father deeded the family home to her brother, Jane was tossed to the winds, no money to her name, probably too old to be wed. At this bleak moment, she receives a proposal of marriage from a rich but boring man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision: between financial security and her writing career. When sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin eloped to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she was already pregnant. Midnight finds her pacing the Italian shore, five days after her husband has ventured out in a shaky boat on a stormy day. He has not returned. The fanatic Joan of Arc maintained faith in divine rescue until the first time she was tied to the stake. Realizing that she would burn, she recanted. In Midnight, she confronts her imminent death before facing the flames for a second time"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Midnight and Jane Austen -- Mary Shelley on the beach -- Joan of Arc in chains. 600 10 $a Austen, Jane, $d 1775-1817. 600 10 $a Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, $d 1797-1851. 600 00 $a Joan, $c of Arc, Saint, $d 1412-1431. 650 0 $a Women $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women authors $v Biography. 650 0 $a Christian women saints $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biography. $2 lcgft 655 4 $a Nonfiction. 700 12 $a Shorr, Victoria. $t Girl X. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190315010302.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A7AC136646E711E99BA2BC3397128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search