by Emma Donoghue · MacMillan Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447212591
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«The Sealed Letter» is the historical novel by Emma Donoghue, published by MacMillan Publishers Ltd in paperback (464 pages, in English).
In Victorian London, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull, feminist businesswoman, reunites with Helen Codrington, unhappy in her marriage. Drawn into Helen's secret affair with a young officer, the friendship fractures; the husband sues for divorce and a sealed letter threatens to destroy lives. Inspired by a divorce scandal of 1864.
The Sealed Letter, originally published in 2008, was nominated for the Orange Prize and won the Lambda Literary Award; this edition dates from 2012.
For adult readers who enjoy Victorian historical fiction, period dramas and stories based on real scandals.
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.
