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one level this novel is a superbly entertaining love story, rich in mystery and suspense, On another, it delves into the deceptions of memory, the fatal impediments to a meeting of human minds, and the worlds within that collect such treacherous reflections of the world withoutand impose their tragic errors on it.
Elisabeth, an unconventional and openhearted American girl, has come to Paris to study art, but marries instead a wealthy Parisian, the elegant Remy, who dabbles dangerously in hypnotism.
When they go to live at his familys estate northeast of Paris, a series of terrible events occurs which will change Elisabeths life and those of the intriguing characters around her.
Dorothea Malm, whose Gothic romance novels were compared favorably to those of Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca West and Jane Austen, died Julyin Minneapolis.
She was. Her passion was historical research, said her niece, Anne Malm Hossfeld of Minnetonka, Malms heroines endured their dangerous love liaisons, the trademark of Gothic novels, in locales fromth century Boston toth century Paris.
Born in Minnesota in, Malm spent her childhood in Minot, N, D. , where her family had moved to join relatives, They returned to Minnesota inand lived for many decades in Glen Lake, later incorporated into Minnetonka, She earned bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Minnesota, She taught for a year in a junior high school be Dorothea Malm, whose Gothic romance novels were compared favorably to those of Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca West and Jane Austen, died Julyin Minneapolis.
She was. "Her passion was historical research," said her niece, Anne Malm Hossfeld of Minnetonka, Malm's heroines endured their dangerous love liaisons, the trademark of Gothic novels, in locales fromth century Boston toth century Paris.
Born in Minnesota in, Malm spent her childhood in Minot, N, D. , where her family had moved to join relatives, They returned to Minnesota inand lived for many decades in Glen Lake, later incorporated into Minnetonka, She earned bachelor's and master's degrees at
the University of Minnesota, She taught for a year in a junior high school before moving to Philadelphia to work as a manuscript editor for the Ladies Home Journal magazine.
She returned to Glen Lake to teach freshman English at the university in, After that, she found herself "able to make a small but sufficient living writing fiction and have done so ever since," she wrote inin biographical data for Minneapolis Tribune files.
Her first novel, "Pamela Foxe," appeared in, after she had already enjoyed success with short stories in women's magazines, "To the Castle," which appeared in, "is the stuff of which Du Maurier novels are made," a Minneapolis Tribune reviewer wrote, "and, to be successful, must be told with great style and complete sincerity.
These are gifts which Miss Malm, has in generous supply. ""The Paper Mistress" was not as well received in, In, a Tribune reviewer of "Every Third Thought" noted that Malm "is little known here" but that critics in England had compared her to West and Austen.
The book was "a masterful portrait" of three octogenarian siblings "with their disjointed memories and interesting bits of philosophy, "A disciplined, private woman, Malm wrote daily for about five hours, starting each book by writing out a rough draft and revising it by hand.
"I usually feel that I have done all that I can to it the fourth time through," she wrote in, "I also find it advisable to let each new version stand and cool undisturbed for as long a time as possible, "Until thes, three Malm sisters were living and writing at home, her niece said, Dorothea, who was published first, encouraged Frances Malm to follow her in writing fiction, The third sister, Marguerite Malm, a professor of psychology and education, wrote nonfiction related to her work, sitelink sitelink.