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  • Story of tragic love triangle illustrates women's struggles at end of the Gilded Age

    Oct 27, 2021 9:30 am by Jodi HeckelResearch
    book cover image beside portrain of Professor Catherine Prendergast. Photos courtesy Catherine Prendergast

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    • book cover image beside portrain of Professor Catherine Prendergast. Photos courtesy Catherine Prendergast

    English Professor Catherine Prendergast writes about a love triangle among members of a writers’ colony and their deaths by cyanide, set in the bohemian counterculture at the end of the Gilded Age.