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A Biography of Loneliness by Fay Bound Alberti traces loneliness from the 18th century to today, revealing it as a modern, socially shaped emotion. Using diaries, letters, and case studies of Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, it explores how class, gender, and experience shape this complex feeling.

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A story that began as a fantasy based on a childhood memory in the 1960s about a Banshee in Ireland. The story evolved into a memoir blending imagination with a true story about six-year-old Paddy and his life in New York City, to rural Ireland, and back to New York, navigating a broken home and a variety of other early-life challenges.