The Dark Lady's Mask(Reprint) by MarySharratt Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 2017 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-544-94444-2, ISBN: 0-544-94444-5
"The idea of a smart beautiful artistic woman telling Shakespeare We shall write comedies you and I is as heady as the elderflower wine Aemilia s household staff brews Washington Post Atmospheric well researched carefully plotted this is an intellectual s romance novel Minnesota Star Tribune London 1593 Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished but her societal conformity ends there She frequently cross dresses to escape her l ..."
Ecstasy(1st Edition) A Novel by MarySharratt Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-80089-2, ISBN: 0-544-80089-3
"In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman’s life would define and defy an era Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as “one of the very few magical women that exist.” But who was this woman who brought th ..."
The Dark Lady's Mask by MarySharratt Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-30076-7, ISBN: 0-544-30076-9
"Shakespeare in Love meets Shakespeare’s Sister in this novel of England’s first professional woman poet and her collaboration and love affair with William Shakespeare. London, 1593. Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and to gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shak ..."
Ecstasy A Novel by MarySharratt 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-80092-2, ISBN: 0-544-80092-3
"... selected and translated by Antony Beaumont, and Gustav Mahler: Letters to
His Wife, edited by Henry-Louis de la Grange and Günther Weiss. ... The
biography I found most illuminating was Susanne Rode-Breymann's Alma Mahler
-Werfel: Muse, Gattin, Witwe. ... Shortly before her marriage to Mahler, the twenty-
two-year-old Alma Maria Schindler wrote in her diary, “I have two souls: I know it.”
Born in ..."
The Dark Lady's Mask by MarySharratt 416 Pages, Published 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-28974-1, ISBN: 0-544-28974-9
"Panic rose inside Aemilia's chest—why did her brother-in-law's words leave
Papa so stricken? “I've heard dark rumors indeed,” said Holland, “of a secret
cabal of Jews in the Liberty of Norton Folgate who convene by night in secret
underground chambers.” Her heart quickened. So this was Papa's secret, what
he hid from her, although Mother and Angela knew. Her father and his brothers
were Jews, like the patriarchs in the Old Testamen ..."
"Written by Murder Squad and their six accomplices, these page-turning stories uncover a world of intrigue, suspense, and fear. With contributions from celebrated crime writers including Ann Cleeves and Martin Edwards, each tale is inspired by the atmospheric and evocative Pembrokeshire collection of photographer David Wilson."
"Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything. They leave plague-ridden London for Italy, where they begin secretly writing comedies. Their Italian idyll, though, cannot last and their collaborative affai ..."
"Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything. They leave plague-ridden London for Italy, where they begin secretly writing comedies. Their Italian idyll, though, cannot last and their collaborative affai ..."