The Midnight Queen: London in the Plague Year
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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London, 1665: the plague is in the streets, the court is at its most dissolute, and a masked woman rules a court of thieves in the ruins. Fleming, from Saint John, New Brunswick, became one of the first Canadians to live entirely by the pen, selling sensation novels to the New York weeklies at rates that made her rich; the plague London here is lurid, fast and entirely unashamed of itself. Fifty-five plates, from Gerrit Dou to Edvard Munch, gather the candlelit rooms and winter streets that give this plague-year London its claustrophobic, uneasy air.
London, 1665: the plague is in the streets, the court is at its most dissolute, and a masked woman rules a court of thieves in the ruins. Fleming, from Saint John, New Brunswick, became one of the first Canadians to live entirely by the pen, selling sensation novels to the New York weeklies at ra...
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May Agnes Fleming (1840–1880) was a Canadian-born author who wrote sensational fiction for the American market, from Saint John, New Brunswick, and later Brooklyn, New York. She published many dime novels, including The Midnight Queen (1863), her best-known work.
May Agnes Fleming (1840–1880) was a Canadian-born author who wrote sensational fiction for the American market, from Saint John, New Brunswick, and later Brooklyn, New York. She published many dime novels, including The Midnight Queen (1863), her best-known work.
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