VOYNICH, Ethel Lilian
The Gadfly

The wildest 19th-century novel you’ve never heard of. Delight in this story of Italy’s Risorgimento starring a mysterious satirist, a hard-working lady-radical, and a Catholic cardinal with a BIG secret… 

Ethel Lilian (Boole) Voynich (1864–1960) was born in Cork, Ireland, and raised in Lancashire, England. Her peripatetic adult life was defined by passions for music and leftist politics. In 1902, she married Wilifrid Michael Voynich, a Polish revolutionary and antiquarian book dealer. She spent her final decades in New York City, where she worked in a music school and as a translator of Russian, Polish and French texts.

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Published by Mandylion Press, 2025
Literature