Gilded

by Catherine Karp

Catherine Karp's Hollywood Discovery Award-winning debut novel delves inside the late-19th-century home of Philip Brandenberg, a popular Massachusetts mayor who firmly believes in the Victorian notion that women are second-class citizens. His wife, Emma, college educated and twenty-three years his junior, longs to escape her controlling and often-violent husband--yet society and fear keep her in her place. GILDED opens in the summer of 1897, five years into the turbulent marriage, when a heightening women's rights movement, a few wayward friends, and a hatmaker who loves his lady customers far too intimately will all lead the young Mrs. Brandenberg to a marvelous LIBERATION...

306 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2000

Reviews

[Karen Hogan · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I could give 3.5 stars here, I would. The story of a young Victorian wife terrorized and abused by her older husband was the most compelling part of this novel, and made me want to make sure Emma, the main character survived..