About theAuthor

Diane Winnick was born in New York and attended Hofstra University, where she studied English literature and art history. She writes Victorian-era fiction distinguished by meticulous historical detail and richly imagined female characters navigating friendship, love, and social constraint. Her career in fashion and interior design shapes the visual richness of her detailed period settings, through which she explores women’s inequality and their desire for autonomy and self-fulfillment in a male-dominated world. Diane lives with her spouse, surrounded by vintage books, antique perfume bottles, and a prized mint-green typewriter—a gift from her grandparents when she was twelve. This historical trilogy marks her literary debut.