A Long Fatal Love Chase

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A Long Fatal Love Chase is a gothic romantic thriller novel by Louisa May Alcott, written in the 1860s but published posthumously in 1995, that follows a young woman ensnared in a dangerous, obsessive love.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf gothic novel
novel
romantic thriller novel
alternateTitle A Long Fatal Love Chase
surface form: A Long Fatal Love-Chase
antagonist Philip Tempest
author Louisa May Alcott
authorKnownFor Little Women
containsMotif disguise and flight
pursuit across countries
religious refuge
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followsCharacter Rosamond Vivian
genre Victorian literature
gothic fiction
romantic thriller
hasEndingTone tragic
hasProtagonistGender female
hasSetting Europe
France
Italy
island
monastery
intendedAsSerial true
literaryMovement American Romanticism
literarySignificance example of Alcott’s darker sensational fiction
mainCharacter Rosamond Vivian
mediaType book
print
narrativeForm prose
narrativePerspective third-person
originalLanguage English
originallyUnpublished true
publicationDate 1995
publishedPosthumously true
publisher Random House
reasonForInitialNonPublication consideredTooSensational
setInPeriod 19th century
subjectMatter dangerous love affair
psychological manipulation
targetAudience adult readers
theme domestic violence
female autonomy
obsessive love
pursuit and escape
stalking
workOf Louisa May Alcott
writtenIn 1860s
1865

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A Long Fatal Love Chase alternateTitle A Long Fatal Love Chase
this entity surface form: A Long Fatal Love-Chase
Louisa May Alcott wrote A Long Fatal Love Chase