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...Lauren’s friends certainly knew that she was writing a novel, but she didn’t talk about it overmuch,” writes Willig’s friend Elizabeth W. Mellyn in an e-mail. Mellyn, a fifth-year doctoral student in history—who, as it happens, is working on The Relic Thieves, a young-adult novel set in fifteenth-century Italy—knows something about balancing fiction with graduate-level history...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOK ENDS: Grad Student Grabs Readers With Bodice-Ripper | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

...Honestly, it’s not always a good idea in an academic department to admit to writing a novel,” Mellyn reflects. “While some view it as an endeavor lacking seriousness and rigor others can see it as a waste of time...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOK ENDS: Grad Student Grabs Readers With Bodice-Ripper | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

Next to a naive girl the most important prop is a house. It should be a vast, forbidding domicile replete with walled-in rooms and a name that resounds like the surf it often fronts: Manderley, Mount Mellyn, Castle Crediton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Road to Manderley | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...genre, the breakthrough book was Victoria Holt's Mistress of Mellyn (1960), which sold a million copies. Though it was in itself a touchingly direct tribute to Rebecca, Mellyn has become the model for many of the new romances. The plot concerns Martha Leigh, a young gentlewoman in reduced circumstances, who comes to a vast mansion in Cornwall to care for the motherless daughter of enigmatic Connan Tre-Mellyn. Even before Martha falls reluctantly in love with Connan, she learns that his wife's death was both scandalous and mysterious, that he is surrounded by neighbors with ambiguous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Road to Manderley | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

MENFREYA IN THE MORNING by Victoria Holt. 256 pages. Doubleday. $4.50. Britain's Holt is one of the best-known and most successful Gothic storytellers (Mistress of Mellyn, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin). This book is about Harriet Delvaney, a poor little rich girl who is afflicted with a limp and is despised by her father because her mother died at her birth. She marries Bevil Menfrey, the handsome, tawny-haired scion of a high-spirited but impoverished family, and goes to live at Menfreya, a fortresslike mansion on the Cornish coast. Once installed, Harriet is deliriously happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women's Home Companions | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

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