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Finola Austin

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Finola Austin, also known as the Secret Victorianist on her award-winning blog, is an England-born, Northern Ireland-raised, Brooklyn-based historical novelist and lover of the 19th century. By day, she works in digital advertising.

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	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Finola Austin (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 130,093 ratings — published 1848 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brontë’s Mistress 3.58 avg rating — 1,152 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Writers

Happy Holidays, everyone, and thank you for reading blog this year. Are you looking for a gift for a published or early career writer in your life? Here’s my roundup of the presents they just might have on their wish list…An Annual Subscription to Publishers Weekly and/or Publishers MarketplaceHelp a writer stay up to date with industry sales and understand what’s selling to publishers and moving

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The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

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“It was just as well dying was not easy. If it were, women and men would choose it oh so often, in each blinding rush of fresh pain. Instead we soldier through, thralls to that irrational master who bids us 'live,' clinging to the hope of waking to a brighter dawn.

[Lydia Gisborne Robinson]”
― Finola Austin, Brontë’s Mistress

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