#florence converse

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Florence Converse

Born in 1871 in New Orleans, she was a lesbian writer who spanned many genres. She wrote historical novels, mysteries, plays, poetry, and she could also translate other works from French. She not only graduated Wellesley College in 1893 but then went on to complete a masters degree in 1903. She moved north where she met and had a Boston Marriage with Vida Dutton Scudder. They are buried side by side.

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For #BannedBookWeek2016, #WhodunitWednesday hunted high and low for a banned book in our Robbie Emily Dunn Collection of American Detective Fiction - and we found not one title. So, to celebrate the freedom to read, we’re bringing you a mystery set in a bookshop AND the fourth dimension!

Converse, Florence. Into the Void: A Bookshop Mystery. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1926.

You’ve got to love that she dedicated her book to her mother:

And now, here’s the blurb about the book itself:

Beware of declarations of prancing into the fourth dimension - you may just disappear after all! 

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I have been sorry for married women oftener than for old maids.

Diana Victrix by Florence Converse