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Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth

1902, the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara are obsessed with each other and with Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. The girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. Their bodies are discovered in a nearby apple orchard, with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Within five years three more people die on the property-- and the Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever. The now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the "haunted and cursed" Gilded Age institution. Her book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring lesbian 'It' girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again for filming, soon it's impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins. -- adapted from jacket

GenresGirls' schoolsFictionHorror filmsProduction and directionLesbiansPrivate schools

623 pages, 10 editions

English edition · First published 2020 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · ISBN 9780062942852

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Editions

10 editions

English

  • Plain Bad Heroines · William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · 2020 · ISBN 9780062942852 · 1 reader This page
  • Plain Bad Heroines · The Borough Press · 2022 · ISBN 9780008346959
  • Plain Bad Heroines · The Borough Press · 2021 · ISBN 9780008346935
  • Plain Bad Heroines · The Borough Press · 2021 · ISBN 9780008346928
  • Plain Bad Heroines: Library Edition · Blackstone Pub · 2020 · ISBN 9781799943761
  • Plain Bad Heroines · The Borough Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd · 2020 · ISBN 9780008347208
  • Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel · HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing · 2020 · ISBN 9781799943785
  • Plain Bad Heroines · HarperCollins · 2020 · ISBN 9780062942876
  • Plain Bad Heroines · HarperCollins Publishers · 2020 · ISBN 9780008409593
  • Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel · HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing · 2020 · ISBN 9781799943778

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