A Modern Madonna
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About the author
Caroline Abbot Stanley (1849–1919) is an English-language author about whom little biographical information survives; the library currently holds only one work by her, A Modern Madonna. Because public sources are limited, her nationality, education and personal history cannot be reliably confirmed and should not be guessed at. Judging from the surviving bibliographic record, her writing activity centred on fiction, and the title of her representative work, A Modern Madonna, suggests a modern reworking of the Madonna image, hinting that the book may deal with female figures, motherhood and social roles—a theme common in English popular fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her name and dates place her writing career in the transition from the late Victorian period to modernity, when the market for women readers expanded and domestic and emotional narratives centred on women found a wide audience. Though few of her works circulated, she may still be counted among the many women writers of that era who wrote for a living yet were gradually forgotten by literary history, and she deserves a place in bibliographic records as a clue for further research.
