Sarah Aldridge
"...one of the best storytellers currently in print." -Wisconsin Book Watch, Wisconsin
Sarah Aldridge is the pseudonym of Anyda Marchant who spent the forty years of her working life in New York City and Washington, D.C. as a lawyer in both public and private practice. Upon retiring in 1972, she began a career as a writer and publisher. She originated the Naiad Press and was co-founder when it was incorporated in 1974. In 1995 she and her lifelong companion Muriel Crawford, withdrew as co-owners of the Naiad Press and founded a new publishing venture, A&M Books, which thus became the publisher of the Sarah Aldridge novels. Journalist Andrea Peterson has called her books "perhaps the most substantive and enjoyable lesbian novels ever written." Anyda and Muriel live in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where they continue to entertain local residents and visitors alike. And yes, Sarah Aldridge is thinking about ideas for her next book!
"Aldridge, ever the skilled
storyteller, brings to her readers a tale of pure and
simple love in a corrupt and complex world." -The
Washington Blade, DC
There are currently 14 Sarah Aldridge novels, and all are now available from A&M Books. If you wish to join the many readers who have enjoyed them over the years or if you need to replace your copy of one of these novels, please contact us! We look forward to hearing from you.
For your information we are pleased to provide these brief descriptions of the Sarah Aldridge novels:
O, Mistress
Mine (2003)
A staid, traditional college is pulled into the maelstrom of contemporary social issues when Professor Joan Etheridge is drawn into the nebulous world of the few and elusive Alice. Joan's empathy for the seemingly lost and troubled Alice, surprising even to herself, leads her on an unexpected and life-changing journey. Contemporary voices for change assail Joan's ivory tower, forcing her to examine her own ideals and helping her unravel her colleagues' true motives and ethics. She must navigate the gulf between academic discussion of love, loyalty and personal values and real-world events demanding she take a stand on civil rights, reproductive freedom and most of all, consider where her own heart belongs. $15.
Nina In The
Wilderness (1997)
Nina, aged 17, the sole survivor of a plane crash in a remote region of the Amazon jungle, suffers not only from the trauma of the wreck and abandonment in the wilderness but also from the shattering of her life by the loss of he parents. A passionate love is at the heart of this novel that inspires the devotion of true friendship. $11.95 soft-cover, $18 hardcover.
Amantha
(1995)
Amantha, 18 years old in 1885, pretty and innocent, comes from finishing school to live with her uncle and aunt in Baltimore. She meets Godwin, and she soon discovers the real role she is to lay, the wife of a wealthy, powerful man who proves to be a possessive husband and whose child she must raise. But in the midst of the drama of this life of privilege and constraint, she find, under the most unusual circumstances, the woman who gives her the love her heart seeks. $10.95
Michaela (1994)
Laura and Julia are in France where Laura is recuperating from the trauma of looking after a husband who has died of AIDS. They come upon Michaela, a penniless girl with a passionate desire to be a dancer. In their efforts to befriend her they involve themselves in a situation dangerous to their own joint lives. $10.95
A Flight Of Angels (1992)
Set in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in the McCarthy era of the 1950's, Clemence learns about herself and discovers through Elissa what it means to be gay. $9.95
Keep To Me Stranger (1989)
Helena, who set out to achieve success in the business world of New York City in the 1980's find herself and he true love Billie in the hear of a Jewish merchant dynasty. $9.95
Magdalena (1987)
Magdalena, an opera star, discovers that he love for may transcends her own ambition. This is the story of a lifelong passion that lasts beyond the grave. $9.95.
Misfortune's
Friend (1985)
Set in Baltimore and London just before World War II, Althea, crippled by polio as a child, find love and companionship with Fern. Mrs. Henshaw, who is indeed a friend to the unfortunate, nevertheless learns from these young women that she must correct a mistake she has made in the past. $8.95
Madame Aurora (1983)
Hannah, who has been a nurse in the Civil War and a teacher, uses the psychic power with which she is endowed to create a comfortable home for her lifelong companion, Elizabeth, who has suffered physical disabilities and also the indignities heaped upon her as a woman scholar in the academic world of the late nineteenth century. $7.95.
The Nesting Place (1982)
Sabina, a physician, learns to overcome the havoc caused in herself by her own early tragedies, through the love of two very different women, Claire, a woman of wealth and social power, and Letty, a well-known concert pianist endowed with an artist's intensity. $7.95
Cytherea's Breath (1976)
Emma, struggling to establish herself as a physician in turn-of-the-century Baltimore, wins the love and support of Margaret, a wealthy patron. This is a tale of a handful of Baltimore women dedicated to women's emancipation and medical education. $6.95.
All True Lovers (1978)
In the Washington DC of the 1930's, Laura and Isabel meet in their teens and through their love for each other find their true selves as the grow into maturity. $8.95.
Tottie (1975)
This is the story of a young lawyer, Connie, engaged to be marred and encountering the invisible obstacles that stand in the way of women in her profession, who meets Tottie, a runaway from a conservative family who joins the underground in rebellion. $6.95
The Latecomer (1974)
Philippa, returning by ship from a European vacation to her post in a women's college, finds her life unexpectedly changed by the woman who shares her cabin, whose career as an entertainer contrasts vividly with her own. This novel was the first publication of the Naiad Press. $6.95
The Latecomer, like all the Sarah Aldridge novels, is available now from A&M Books!
