49 ratings | 16 reviews | avg rating:3.47

Marie-Anne Mancio’s Followers (9)

Marie-Anne’s Bookshelves

to-read (18)
currently-reading (0)
read (48)
did-not-finish (0)

Marie-Anne’s Friends (35)

E.M. Powell

165 books | 428 friends

Mark Laporta

30 books | 25 friends

Sherry

687 books | 2,859 friends

Sandra de Helen

1,198 books | 339 friends

Jeffrey Philips

1,037 books | 247 friends

Erin

108 books | 18 friends

Cherry Trott

802 books | 7 friends

Bill Cokas

760 books | 291 friends

More friends…

Marie-Anne Mancio

Goodreads Author

Twitter

hotelalphabet

Member Since

January 2011

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/hotelalphabet

edit data

8 posts
Marie-Anne Mancio's Blog

What’s Wrong with Nancy?

Nancy (Leanne Rowe) and Bill (Jamie Foreman) in “Oliver Twist” (2005)

Our culture has a bizarre relationship with prostitution. Prostitutes modeled for painters (e.g. Fillide Melandroni for Caravaggio) when ‘respectable’ women couldn’t; they were the subject of avant-garde works (Manet’s Olympia, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon) and operas (Verdi’s La Traviata). In literature, Maupassant’s

Combine Editions
Marie-Anne Mancio’s books

Average rating: 4.48 · 69 ratings · 40 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Of Words and Water: 2013 by Jay Howard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ali Isaac, Kerry Dwyer 4.66 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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
	Whorticulture 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

recent posts
Marie-Anne’s Groups

Review Group — 5749 members — last activity 1 hour, 4 min ago
Reviews are very important for Self-Published (SP), and Indie authors, just as they are for others. Unfortunately, though, many SP/Indie books don't g ...more

THE Group for Authors! — 13025 members — last activity May 02, 2026 04:00PM
This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.

Historical Fictionistas — 16173 members — last activity 6 minutes ago
Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more

The Feminist Readers' Network — 1001 members — last activity Feb 05, 2023 06:50AM
A space for people interested in and supportive of feminism, feminist literature, and feminist theory.

Anyone use Indiegogo? — 9 members — last activity May 06, 2020 09:46PM
Indiegogo is a crowd-funding device that people use to raise funds for their "Campaign", basically a request for funds to help a project come to fruit ...more

First Readers (Beta Readers) — 636 members — last activity Apr 29, 2026 04:34PM
Reciprocal first reading of finished work. (Prior to e-publishing or sending off to agent/publisher.)

More of Marie-Anne’s groups…