by Emma Donoghue · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780547247762
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«The Sealed Letter» is the historical novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in paperback, with 416 pages, in English.
Emily «Fido» Faithfull, a pioneer of British feminism, reunites with her friend Helen Codrington, trapped in a bad marriage and an affair with an officer. In helping her, Fido ends up in a divorce trial: accusations of adultery, counter-accusations of rape, and a sealed letter that could ruin lives. Based on a real case from 1864.
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and nominated for the Stonewall Book Award, the Orange Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and LGBTQ+ narrative interested in Victorian England and major divorce trials.
Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, Donoghue won the coveted Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians.
