TY - BOOK AU - Rushforth,Peter TI - Pinkerton's sister SN - 0743252357 (hbk.) AV - PR6068.U76 U1 - 823.914 PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Scribner KW - Young women KW - Fiction KW - Mental illness KW - Eccentrics and eccentricities KW - Characters and characteristics in literature KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Psychological fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - Social life and customs N2 - Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Michelangelo, Whitman, Poe, they are her inspiration: Jane Eyre, Catherine Moreland, Desdemona, they are her companions. As as she moves about the witless world around her, observing their prejudices, their shallow culture, their snobbery, their vanity, it is they who prompt her observations, as she views them all through the prisms of the art that has sustained and nourished her lonely life ER -