Mary Roberts Rinehart – Cannonball Read 17

How to Be a Woman (1915 Edition)

K. by Mary Roberts Rinehart

January 20, 2021 by Another Kate 2 Comments

Mary Roberts Rinehart is best-known today for her influential mystery novels, but K. is basically General Hospital set in 1915, only quieter and more gentle—at least on the surface. What appears to be a rather slow-moving tale of romance and mild intrigue in a small-town hospital is actually a fascinating and even nuanced exploration of what it meant to be an unmarried woman in 1915. As fiction…well, you really need to be in the mood. But as a sociological document, it’s absolutely fascinating. Read all […]

The Dark Waters of Doom…

The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart

January 28, 2019 by Moonlight Reader Leave a Comment

The Case of Jennie Brice was first published in 1913 – my MMP edition issued in 1969 by Dell. The cover is by a well-known cover artist of the time, Garridos, who specialized in images of beautiful young women in dangerous situations. The image is very appealing, as I love these old covers, but has quite literally nothing in common with the contents of the book – there is no young blonde in a boat with a lantern to be found between these pages. I […]

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