Plain Bad Heroines : Emily M. Danforth

A Novel | Paperback | FICTION/Gothic Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous, bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s books splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets.