Historical Fiction
Loved and Lost
2021·286 pages
A poignant tale of love and heartbreak, exploring women's limited roles in Victorian England with intense emotional depth.
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A poignant tale of love and heartbreak, exploring women's limited roles in Victorian England with intense emotional depth.
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Renowned for his tales of horror and the supernatural, Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu also devoted attention to other kinds of writing. In recent years, a novel published anonymously in the Dublin University Magazine in 1868–69 has been convincingly attributed to Le Fanu. This work, Loved and Lost, now appears for the first time in book form under his byline. In many ways it is radically different from his Gothic fiction. It focuses on the plight of Edith Aubrey, a young woman from a high-...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Frequent sexual tension and passionate scenes; some explicit content with intense yearning.
Violence & gore
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No violence or gore depicted.
Profanity
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No profanity or strong language depicted.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Central lesbian relationship with intense emotional connection; not focused on coming out.
Religious content
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No religious themes present.
Magic & witchcraft
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No witchcraft or occult themes present.
Occult / demonology
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No evidence found in available sources.
Political content
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Critique of Victorian gender roles and societal restrictions on women.
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted.
Abuse & suffering
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Mild depiction of systemic societal oppression of women in Victorian era.
Other
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