Album Leaf (novel)
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| Author | Marjorie Bowen |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Arthur Hawkins |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Gothic Drama |
| Publisher | Heinemann (London) Smith and Haas (New York) |
Publication date | 1933 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
Album Leaf is a 1933 novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under the pen name of Joseph Shearing.[1] It was published in the United States in 1934 under the alternative title The Spider in the Cup, where it became a bestseller. Like a number of her works it has a gothic tone.
Synopsis
[edit]A young orphaned Englishwoman accepts an offer to become a paid companion to two reclusive aristocratic women in France. There she encounters the daughter of the house, badly scarred following her suicide attempt after she had been unable to marry a cad now serving in French Algeria and her prospective husband, a cousin named Louis who is clearly after her money and spends a lot of his time experimenting with his chemistry.
References
[edit]- ^ Vinson p.92
Bibliography
[edit]- Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.
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