mentally ill women

Kate Jensen is forced to think about her childhood as a white girl in apartheid South Africa when her mother, newly diagnosed with cancer, beckons her home from America.

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

A novel that centers on the abduction of disturbed heiress Isabel Ireland, whose husband, Henry, died in a fall from his horse, and a collection of characters from all levels of 1860s English society who keep Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard running in circles.

Presents a biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicling her marriage, artistic ambitions, and bouts with madness.

Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret. Includes criticism from feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, cultural, and Marxist perspectives.