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In her new novel, The Raven's Bride (St. Martin's Press, ), Lenore Hart creates a fascinating, fully-fleshed out Virginia "Sissy" Clemm and actually blows full life into a character that has only ever been mentioned as a taboo reference to a great author.

The book begins the way I like a good story to start: with dead ghost girls/5(27). THE RAVEN'S BRIDE is an engaging primer for readers new to the Sam Houston mythos. It's also a great read. Read more. 12 people found this helpful. Helpful.

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Reviewed in the United States on Decem /5(7). Elizabeth Crook was born in Houston, graduated from Rice University in She has written four novels: The Raven's Bride, which was the Texas Reads One Book selection; Promised Lands; The Night Journal, winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Long Novel and the Willa Literary Award for Historical Fiction; and Monday, Monday, which was awarded the Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Find Raven's Bride () by Crook, Elizabeth/5(91). InGovernor Sam Houston of Tennessee married Eliza Allen; in that same year, Houston left Nashville for the West—and eventually Texas.

Then, inSam and Eliza, in Tennessee, were divorced. Both would remarry. This is Crook's highly colored, ambitious attempt to penetrate the lifelong silences of both parties concerning what Crook views as a doomed marriage of an irresistible force Author: Elizabeth Crook.

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InSam Houston was a thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, an imperious political genius whose horizons seemed limitless. Get this from a library. The Raven's bride. [Elizabeth Crook] -- Crook's intricate first novel engagingly details the abrupt dissolution of Sam Houston's week marriage to Eliza Allen inan event that caused lingering scandal and speculation.

Sam, governor. The Raven's Bride is a brilliantly original novel that unravels this dark romantic mystery while illuminating a vivid and fascinating moment in America's past.

In these pages, Sam Houston is presented as he must have been--a heroic figure (called the Raven by the Cherokee), vain, flamboyant, magnetic, his outsized personality fueled by a.

'Raven's Bride' a success now, but author struggled for years. by Elizabeth Bennett, book editor. Austin author Elizabeth Crook is on a roll. Her first novel, The Raven's Bride, is getting both critical and popular acclaim and already has gone into its third.

Get this from a library. The raven's bride. [Lenore Hart] -- This provocative novel explores the mysterious and confounding relationship between Poe and Sissy Clemm, his great love and constant companion.

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The Raven’s Bride. Written by Lenore Hart Review by Mary F. Burns. We all know how sad and dreary Edgar Allan Poe’s life was, in real life and in his stories and poems. Charming and alcoholic, raised to be a gentleman but always living on the edge of dire poverty, hypersensitive and in poor health, Poe was at best a difficult man to be with and at worst, an impossibly difficult man to be Author: Lenore Hart.

Buy a cheap copy of Raven's Bride book by Lenore Hart. When eight-year-old Virginia "Sissy" Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she's conjured up in childhood games. Thirteen years her Free shipping over $Author: Lenore Hart.

That publisher, St. Martin’s Press, has steadfastly defended Lenore Hart against charges of literary fraud in the writing of her novel, “The Raven’s Bride,” released earlier this year.

The book contains passages that are markedly similar to those in “The Very Young Mrs. Poe,” a novel by Cothburn O’Neal, who died in Raven’s Bride. Author: Lenore Hart. Genre: Fiction. Imprint: St. Martin's Griffin. EAN: When eight-year-old Virginia “Sissy” Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she’s conjured up in childhood games.

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