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On Paradise Row
A Mary Astell Mystery
A new novel from Sharon L. Jansen
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London
October 1696
An Unexpected Guest
An Unwilling Host
A Terrible Death
A Desperate Search for the Truth
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She was not beautiful. Nor was she charming, a word so often used to describe a woman who was not beautiful but who was, nevertheless, appealing in some ineffable way to her many admirers. There were no admirers. . . .
Sharon L. Jansen is the author of several works on women, politics, and literature, including Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing, The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rule in Early Modern Europe, and Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern.
She is also the editor of Mary Astell’s two most well-known works, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) and Some Reflections upon Marriage (1700).
On Paradise Row is her first work of fiction.
Discover the World of Mary Astell
in On Paradise Row
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