Midnight

Moments of great intensity in the lives of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc, when each faced a decision that would shape her legacy.

When Jane Austen’s father deeded the family home to her brother, Jane was tossed to the winds, no money to her name, probably too old to be wed. At this bleak moment, she receives a proposal of marriage from a rich but boring man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision: between financial security and her writing career.

When sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin eloped to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she was already pregnant. Midnight finds her pacing the Italian shore, five days after her husband has ventured out in a shaky boat on a stormy day. He has not returned.

The fanatic Joan of Arc maintained faith in divine rescue until the first time she was tied to the stake. Realizing that she would burn, she recanted. In Midnight, she confronts her imminent death before facing the flames for a second time.

Momente de mare intensitate in viata lui Jane Austen, Mary Shelley si Ioana de Arc, cand fiecare s-a confruntat cu o decizie care sa-i modeleze mostenirea. Cand tatal lui Jane Austen i-a cedat casa familiei fratelui ei, Jane a fost aruncata in vant, nu bani pe numele ei, probabil prea batrani pentru a putea fi casatoriti.