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Emma Donoghue strongly brings alive experiences influenced by her breakthroughs of intriguing, concealed leftovers of yesteryear. Below an engraving of a lady having a baby to rabbits, a trouble ballad, medical case records, theological catalogues, and an articulated skeleton are admirably fleshed-out into rollicking, full bodied fictions. Whether she's spinning the story of an English knight deceived into marrying a dowdy spinster, a Victorian doctor's efforts to "enhance" ladies, a seventeenth-century Irish countess who went away to France disguised as a guy, or an "undead" murderess returning for your maid she left out to be performed in her location, Emma Donoghue provides to her stories a colourful, stylish writing full of the sights and smells and sounds of the time. She summons the spirits of these women and men who counted for nothing within their own time and provides them to memorable life in misinformation.