About

Emily Midorikawa is the author of Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice, and the coauthor of A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf (written with Emma Claire Sweeney, and with a foreword by Margaret Atwood).

Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her journalism has appeared in publications including the Paris Review, TIME, and the Washington Post. Her debut novel will be published in 2026.

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Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice

2021
Paperback cover for Out of the Shadows features the lower face and upper body of a Victorian woman dressed in white lace set against a shadowy background. This is overlaid by the title and author's name, and a quote from the New York Times Book Review.

Drawing on diaries, letters, rarely seen memoirs and texts, Out of the Shadows tells the stories of Kate, Leah and Maggie Fox, Emma Hardinge Britten, Victoria Woodhull, and Georgina Weldon: six enterprising women of the nineteenth century, whose apparent ability to contact the dead brought them fame, fortune and astonishing levels of social and political influence.

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