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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate Victorian language
Sexual Content
Very heavy
Explicit sexual content — the journal and the relationship between Submit and Graham involve graphic sexual content for a Victorian-era setting
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in Victorian settings
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological complexity of a respectable widow drawn to a genuinely unconventional man — and what that says about desire, reputation, and self-knowledge — is the novel's entire point
What this book is about
Submit Channing-Downes receives a bequest from her late husband: a pornographic journal belonging to Graham Wessit, the Earl of Netham. She must deliver it to him. The encounter between a respectable widow and a man rumored to be depraved sets off one of the Victorian era's most psychologically complex romances. An early Ivory — ahead of its time.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Explicit sexual content — unusual for its Victorian setting
Pornographic journal as a plot device
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