- history, diaries, upper class, investigation
At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer, the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her anxieties about her new marriage, express her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and contemplate the nightmare that her life was becoming.
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Grave, bleak, intimate and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Ridley Pearson
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, LLC, Center Point Pub., Center Point Large Print
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786890439
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“I find it a somewhat daunting task to endeavor to place my thoughts here inside your trusted pages, I scarcely know if I am up to the task, but as my head is filled with lurid thoughts, and my heart with romance and possibility, I find I must confide in someone, and so it is to your pages I now turn.”
Edgar-nominee, Ridley Pearson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of (more than 50) award-winning suspense and young adult adventure novels. His novels have been published in two-dozen languages and have been adapted for network television and the Broadway stage. Ridley’s middle-grade-reader series include, The Kingdom Keepers, Steel Trapp and Lock & Key.
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