The characters are all compelling, and the use of historical language and style is well-done without seeming cartoonish or trite.
It isn’t a horror novel or even particularly gothic in any regard. She is more aware than she initially seems, and as the book unfolds, it becomes increasingly possible that she is more menacing than she appears. There is more to Virginia than initially meets the eye, though. Unfortunately for their intense attraction, Frances is still considered a married woman by polite society, though her husband is absent…and Poe is definitely married, to young Virginia, a frail and peculiar woman who is his cousin and whom he married when she was thirteen. She finds him a compelling and exciting man, and despite her sense of reason, she rapidly finds that she is falling for him…and what’s more, he is falling for her. When she meets Edgar Allan Poe, though, everything changes. Frances has no interest in writing this more gothic style of poetry, she has no great initial interest in Poe himself, and she’s also dealing with the difficulty of the absence of her husband (who, she tells everyone, is “away on business,” which is code for having run out on his family, it seems). It’s about a lovetriangle between Edgar Allan Poe, his young wife Virginia, and a poet named Frances Osgood.įrances Osgood is a somewhat successful poet who is being pushed to write more “gothic,” dark poems along the lines of Edgar Allan Poe, who has become something of a celebrity thanks to recent works like “The Raven,” which rendered him a hit with the local literary scene. Poe, a historical romance novel of sorts by Lynn Cullen.
A book came out pretty recently called Mrs.
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