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Alicia's Secret

Alicia, a young American girl in England, visits an old churchyard and evokes Elvira, a sprightly, mischievous young ghost who in turn introduces her to three extraordinary women from three critical moments in history, when each triumphed in a male-dominated society. Considered the greatest English queen, Matilda of Flanders came from Normandy with William the Conqueror and was at the forefront of politics and culture in her era. Sofonisba Anguissola was an accomplished Renaissance artist who studied with Michelangelo and became his protégé, and Lucie Dillon, once a lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette at Versailles, survived the Terror, living in the new United States as a farmer for a time before returning to France to aid Napoleon and Josephine build the social connections they needed to manage their political power. In their own words, these ghostly women describe their widely different lives and loves, and the three periods in which they lived—the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the French Revolution.

Born to wealth and privilege in New York, David Osborn chose to spurn both as
false icons after World War II combat as a Marine Corps dive bomber pilot. On his
own and following brief careers in television and public relations, he expatriated
to France when falsely accused of un-Americanism in the infamous Senator
McCarthy era, paying his way with a co-authored first motion picture script, Chase
a Crooked Shadow. When its star-studded success took him from laboring in a
rock ...