The Gilded Cage - Softcover

Bamford, Susannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590773705 ISBN 13: 9781590773703

Publisher: M. Evans & Company, 2014

Synopsis

December 31, 1889. As the sky over New York City explodes with fireworks on the eve of the new decade, an explosion in the streets causes social tremors that will rock the lives of three women who share a house on Twenty-Third Street: suffragette Columbine Nash, her assistant Bell Huxton, and Marguerite Corbeau, a young woman they’ve adopted from the streets.

Lovely noble Columbine, a woman ahead of her time, strives to correct the social ills that are created by her class; lush, beautiful Bell, battered and abused as a child, searches for a true love and a pure philosophy; and Marguerite, a passionate woman of mystery and self-indulgence, attempts to rise above her station and join the glittering stars of New York theatre.

Their paths will diverge, but their destinies are entwined in this volatile decade of high contrast,
a time when wasp-waisted beauties attend fabulous balls, while underpaid seamstresses talk of anarchy and strike, and in the midst of it all are three women, each living in a gilded cage of her own design, trapped by a difficult past, a promise made in haste, a blind faith in an unbending philosophy, Their liberation is the true story of The Gilded Cage.

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About the Author

Susannah Bamford is an award-winning author who lives in New York City. She has written more than a dozen books including Gilded Cage. She also writes under the name Jude O’Neill.

From Publishers Weekly

Set at the turn of the century, the so-called Gilded Age, this absorbing romantic novel concerns three intelligent and strong-willed women, active in liberal causes, who inhabit the same house on New York City's 23rd Street. Wealthy and patrician Columbine Nash challenges a male-dominated society with her lectures on free love and women's suffrage. She is supported in her goal to establish a home for battered women by the two friends who live with her: 18-year-old Marguerite Corbeau, who conceals her Lower East Side background as Marguerite Blum and hopes to achieve a life of wealth and leisure, and the restless and unhappy Bellspok Huxton, who is repressing her years as an abused child. Lawrence Birch, a calculating and unscrupulous anarchist and sexual adventurer, drops into this household and soon manipulates the trio to his dangerous and explosive ends. The author of Blind Trust , who writes paperback romances as Jude O'Neill, nicely conveys the social fabric of New York during a transitional epoch. If this rich drama of independent but easily exploited women is sometimes illogical, it is never boring.
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About this edition

• Publisher: M. Evans & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1590773705
• ISBN 13: 9781590773703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 430