Album Leaf is a 1933 novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under the pen name of Joseph Shearing.[1] It was published in the United States in 1934 under the alternative title The Spider in the Cup, where it became a bestseller. Like a number of her works it has a gothic tone.

Album Leaf
First US edition
AuthorMarjorie Bowen
Cover artistArthur Hawkins
LanguageEnglish
GenreGothic Drama
PublisherHeinemann (London)
Smith and Haas (New York)
Publication date
1933
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Synopsis

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A young orphaned Englishwoman accepts an offer to become a paid companion to two reclusive aristocratic women in France. There she encounters the daughter of the house, badly scarred following her suicide attempt after she had been unable to marry a cad now serving in French Algeria and her prospective husband, a cousin named Louis who is clearly after her money and spends a lot of his time experimenting with his chemistry.

References

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  1. ^ Vinson p.92

Bibliography

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  • Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.