The Lover by Marguerite Duras books A young woman who has

A young woman who has never known men—a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints—must now reinvent herself

cause pestilence

Shoulder to Shoulder: 14"[some room in puff sleeve]

Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position

violent sensuality

The Lover by Marguerite Duras books A young woman who hasSet against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese Vietnamese man.