![]() Mina begins her story as a vision of the ideal Victorian woman: prim, proper, well-spoken and well-mannered. Now she’s taking on the puritanical Victorians in this revision of Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula. In her previous book, Stealing Athena, Essex wrote about Lady Elgin and Aspasia, two women who faced opposition from the male-dominated societies they lived in. Karen Essex likes to write about strong women. ![]() When Lucy dies after being committed to an insane asylum for nymphomania Mina decides to visit the place herself, seeking answers to the meaning of her dreams and the suspicious circumstances of Lucy’s death. Indeed, the mysterious man in her dreams is beginning to appear in ‘real’ life, too. When she goes to visit her friend Lucy, Mina is also swept up in Lucy’s tangled romances, but the dreams and night wanderings persist. But at night she has vivid, sensual dreams, and on one occasion Mina awoke to find herself wandering London in her nightgown, barely escaping rape. She is a proper Victorian woman, soon to be wed to the equally proper Jonathan Harker. ![]() Mina Murray is a teacher at Miss Hadley’s School for Young Ladies of Accomplishment, where she has been ever since she was a young girl, when her parents sent her away because of her strange, unnatural behavior. ![]()
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