Set in London and Baltimore just before World War II, Althea, crippled by childhood polio finds love and companionship with Fern. Mrs. Henshaw, who assists the unfortunate, helps the pair, and learns through them that she must correct a mistake from the past.
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Following the recent death of writer/publisher Anyda Marchant (pen name, Sarah Aldridge), at age 95, A&M Books of Rehoboth Beach is making available all 14 of the classic and groundbreaking Sarah Aldridge novels. Written between 1974 and 2003, the novels represent a melding of history, feminism and lesbian romance. The first novel was published by the fledgling Naiad Press, which went on to become the largest and most successful lesbian/feminist publisher in the country. Marchant was Naiad president from its founding until 1995.
In 1995, Marchant and Muriel Crawford, (her partner of more than half a century) withdrew from Naiad and founded A&M Books of Rehoboth Beach, DE. The last Sarah Aldridge book, O, Mistress Mine, was written and published when the author was 92 years young. A&M Books, continuing under the leadership of writer Fay Jacobs (Author of As I Lay Frying – A Rehoboth Beach Memoir) is set to carry out the legacy begun by Marchant and Crawford - making all of the Sarah Aldridge titles available once again and continuing to give women writers a voice.
In 1995, Marchant and Muriel Crawford, (her partner of more than half a century) withdrew from Naiad and founded A&M Books of Rehoboth Beach, DE. The last Sarah Aldridge book, O, Mistress Mine, was written and published when the author was 92 years young. A&M Books, continuing under the leadership of writer Fay Jacobs (Author of As I Lay Frying – A Rehoboth Beach Memoir) is set to carry out the legacy begun by Marchant and Crawford - making all of the Sarah Aldridge titles available once again and continuing to give women writers a voice.
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"Publishing is not about the money, it’s about giving women a voice to tell their stories – and every book is an ambassador."
Anyda Marchant (Sarah Aldridge) 1911-2006
Anyda Marchant (Sarah Aldridge) 1911-2006
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By Robin (Mesa, Az USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Misfortunes Friend (Paperback)
Misfortune's Friend by Sarah Aldridge
'Mrs. Henshaw, a middle-aged, unfashionable, faded, who nevertheless pours out the vigor and decisive energy of a young woman in determined efforts to help the friendless, the homeless, the hungy; ... But also the compassionate rescuer of Althea, born to wealth and privilege but crippled by polio, psychically isolated, hungy for the warmth of intimate love which seems forever beyond her reach. And of Fern, independent, restless, emotionally adrift amidst the racial and political turbulence of Belin and London in the 1930's, on the eve of World War II. Yet it is from these two youjng women that she learns that she must correct a mistake made in the past, which has brought anguish to her dearest love and unacknowledged loss to herself.' (Summary on back cover.) This story is written from the perspective of Althea who arrives at her Aunt's doorstep as a 14 year old at odds with the world and her life due to a withered leg from contracting polio at age 6. Though her Aunt Majorie is a lesbian Althea doesn't put the puzzle of her Aunt's life together until she goes abroad after college where she meets and falls in love with Fern, as aspiring actress. It's there in London that Althea fully understands the relationship of Mrs. Henshaw and her Aunt. I did not find this book to be as compelling as other work's of hers that I've read but it's definitely a keeper and will go into my collection to be read again and again. There is just something about the way Sarah Aldridge writes that spellbinds me. She can get to the innermost workings of women in love in ways that modern writers can only do with page after page of tumultuous sex. Which, by the way, there isn't much. On the hot meter this is a 3, on the love meter it's a 10. **Remember - if you want your favorite authors to keep writing for us they have to be able to earn a living doing it. Always buy a NEW book. I know it sucks but if you're not going to keep it in your collection recycle it.**
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