Her Dark Materials - Volume 1: Louisa May Alcott to Rebecca Harding Davis

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited `Gentler Sex' can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.