{"product_id":"midnight-three-women-at-the-hour-of-reckoning","title":"Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note there is no dustcover.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMidnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a study in the courage of three women--Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMidnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin elopes to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she scoffs at the cost--life as an outcast. Together they travel through Europe, reading and writing, but\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMidnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efinds her alone, eight years later, pacing a terrace overlooking the Italian shore, watching for Shelley to sail home over stormy seas in a shaky boat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoan of Arc, imprisoned in chains, kept her faith for a long year. Be brave, daughter of God, her saints had whispered, you will be saved--and she believes it, until she is taken to be burned at the stake.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMidnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the story of Joan's final days, between her terrified recantation and her heroic return to the stake.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria Shorr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43390166139049,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/midnight.webp?v=1699762466","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/midnight-three-women-at-the-hour-of-reckoning","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}