Title: The Raven's Bride: A Novel Author(s): Lenore Hart ISBN: / (USA edition) Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA Amazon AUAuthor: Lenore Hart. Lenore Hart's forte--her special literary gift--is the ability to totally inhabit--to embody--a female character through a first-person narrative. Annie, in WATERWOMAN; fictional Becky Thatcher (of TOM SAWYER fame) in BECKY; and now "Sissy" (Virginia Clemm), in THE RAVEN'S BRIDE, the child-bride who captured Edgar Allan Poe's love and imagination/5(32). Lenore Hart, author of Becky, explores love, loss, the afterlife, and American literature's most haunted and demonized literary figure, by imagining the real, beating heart of the woman who loved and inspired him – and whose absence ultimately destroyed him.
Lenore Hart is the author ofWaterwoman, Ordinary Springs, The Treasure of Savage Island and Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Wilkes Univesity, and at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Cape Cod. American author Lenore Hart has rejected accusations of plagiarism on Facebook, The Raven's Bride. Both Hart's novel, published this year, and O'Neal's The Very Young Mrs Poe, published in. The Raven's Bride A Novel. Lenore Hart. • 7 Ratings; $; $; Publisher Description. When eight-year-old Virginia "Sissy" Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she's conjured up in childhood games. Thirteen years her elder, he's soft-spoken, brooding, and handsome. Eddy fails his way through West Point.
This is a historical novel about Edgar Allan Poe and his wife, Virginia aka Sissy. It is told from Sissy's POV and begins in Baltimore with her as a child playing with dolls and ends with her "haunting" Edgar in a way. Sissy and Edgar are cousins. Lenore Hart (Author of The Raven's Bride) Lenore Hart is the author ofWaterwoman, Ordinary Springs, The Treasure of Savage Island and Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher. One other mentionable about The Raven’s Bride: Lenore Hart’s creativity and style makes historical fiction feel fun, fresh, and interesting – not an easy task for readers who aren’t automatically drawn to fiction based on real life people (done wrong in this genre, and they’re a complete snooze-fest). The dialogue, the varied settings, the biographical tidbits woven in unobtrustively, and the wholeness of Sissy Clemm’s character as a woman of her own accord creates a world that.
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