Mrs Saville

Ted Morrissey

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Margaret Saville's husband has been away on business for weeks and has stopped replying to her letters. Her brother, Robert Walton, has suddenly returned after three years at sea, having barely survived his exploratory voyage to the northern pole. She still grieves the death of her youngest child as she does her best to raise her surviving children, Felix and Agatha. The depth of her brother's trauma becomes clear, so that she must add his health and sanity to her list of cares. A bright spot seems to be a new friendship with a young woman who has just returned to England from the Continent, but Margaret soon discovers that her friend, Mary Shelley, has difficulties of her own, including an eccentric poet husband, Percy, and a book she is struggling to write. Margaret's story unfolds in a series of letters to her absent husband, desperate for him to return or at least to acknowledge her epistles and confirm that he is well. She is lonely, grief-stricken and afraid, yet in these darkest of times a spirit of independence begins to awaken. Mrs Saville begins where the novel Frankenstein ends.

Book Details

Publisher: Twelve Winters Press
Publish Date: Aug 28th, 2018
Pages: 218
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.63in - 0.91lb
EAN: 9780998705767
Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Occult & Supernatural

About the Author

Morrissey, Ted: - Ted Morrissey is the author of two books of scholarship and seven books of fiction. His prismatic novel Crowsong for the Stricken won the International Book Award in Literary Fiction from Book Fest in 2018, as well as the American Fiction Award from American Book Fest, and it was a Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of 2017. His novella Weeping with an Ancient God was a Chicago Book Review Best Book of 2015. His other books of fiction are The Curvatures of Hurt, An Untimely Frost, Figures in Blue, and Men of Winter. His short stories and novel excerpts have appeared in more than sixty journals, among them Glimmer Train Stories, Adelaide, ink&coda, and Southern Humanities Review. He holds a Ph.D. in English studies from Illinois State University. In addition to teaching high school English, he is also a lecturer in Lindenwood University's MFA in Writing program (online). He and his wife Melissa live near Springfield, Illinois. Together they have five children, one grandchild, and two rescue dogs. Ted founded Twelve Winters Press in 2012, modeling it after Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press.

Praise for this book

"Morrissey magisterially conjures--first by incremental inches and then in a crashing crescendo--a fearsome atmosphere of something vague but evil. The author builds that cloud of foreboding out of pieces that seem disconnected but finally cohere in a univocal mood. . . . In addition, the author cleverly ties that mounting malevolence to Mary's own writing in a way that genuinely adds to the story. A fantastically chilling psychodrama intelligently woven into literary history." -- Kirkus Reviews