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Welcome to Mary Novik's website. I hope you enjoy exploring and return to see what's new in the weeks ahead. In About Mary, I talk about what inspired me to write my debut novel Conceit, and in About Conceit, you'll find highlights from reviews, a reader's guide, and more. I update the Blog and News & Events regularly, and share my 17th-century discoveries in Backgrounds. I'd love to hear from you via my Contact page.
Blog
There's great fun afoot on my Facebook page Yesterday, at 6:29 am, a John Donne poem appeared mysteriously on my Wall and at 7:15 some erotic lines from Donne's "Flea" popped up -- "Me it suck'd first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled bee." More quotes are coming in and celebrity authors like Andrew Davidson, Ami McKay, Michael V Smith, and Andrew Pyper are dropping by to kibitz. So, come on everybody, dig around in those school anthologies for quotes that grab your fancy and pay tribute to that greatest of love poets, John Donne! ....
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Conceit
Pegge Donne is still a rebellious girl, barely in her teens
and already too clever
for a world that values learning only
in men, when her father, the famous poet
John Donne, begins
arranging marriages for his five daughters—including
Pegge.
~ About Conceit
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Backgrounds
A year or so before I finished writing Conceit, I was in Paris and stopped in front of a painting in the Louvre by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. I was immediately struck by the resemblance of the girl to my main character, Pegge. I loved the way the nude girl, on the verge of adulthood, was both covering and drawing attention to her breasts....
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