Madeleine Robins's Books
Oct.31.2011
The Sleeping Partner heralds the return of the serene and self-reliant Miss Sarah Tolerance, Fallen Woman and Agent of Inquiry. This time, Miss Tolerance is seeking not a missing trinket or the solution to a crime, but a living person - a young gentlewoman who has vanished from under her wealthy family's roof, apparently bent on a scandalous elopement with a mysterious man...
May.03.2003
"It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a Fallen Woman of good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom." Miss Sarah Tolerance ran away with her brother's fencing master when she was sixteen. Now he's dead and she's back in England, and a Fallen Woman. But she refuses to follow the Fallen Women who have gone before her and become a courtesan. Sarah is a...
About Madeleine
Writing gives Madeleine Robins the chance to focus on many of her ruling passions: cities, history, swordplay, the history of disease, and the future of mankind-with a side order of historical costuming and infrastructure (early urban plumbing is far...
Connections
Causes Madeleine Robins Supports
Planned Parenthood
Parents for Public Schools
Madeleine’s Favorite Books
Jane Eyre; Red Sky at Morning; all Jane Austen's books; Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell; The Name of the Rose; The French Lieutenant's Woman; Eleven Blue Men...