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Behind a Mask -Or- A Woman's Power
Paperback
RomanceClassic FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617206009
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jan 24 2012
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A seemingly modest governess enters a respectable household and quietly begins to expose, manipulate, and conquer everyone around her. In Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power, Jean Muir arrives at the Coventry estate appearing pale, humble, talented, and dependent. But behind her carefully performed weakness is a woman of intelligence, discipline, ambition, and theatrical control, determined to remake her position in a world that gives women few honest paths to power.
Published under Louisa May Alcott's pseudonym A. M. Barnard, this sensational novella reveals the darker, sharper side of the author best known for Little Women. It combines domestic fiction, psychological suspense, class conflict, romance, deception, and Gothic atmosphere in a story where manners become weapons and femininity itself becomes a mask. Jean Muir's performance unsettles the household because it exposes how easily virtue, authority, desire, and social rank can be staged.
First published in 1866, Behind a Mask remains one of Alcott's most fascinating works of sensation fiction. For readers interested in Victorian domestic suspense, women's power, literary pseudonyms, classic psychological fiction, and the hidden tensions beneath respectable family life, this novella offers a brisk, unsettling, and surprisingly modern portrait of ambition disguised as submission.
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