Blanch, Lesley. The Wilder Shores of Love. Reader's Union, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket, 319 pp.

"The four women who form the subject of this book--Isabel Burton, Jane Digby El Mezrab, Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, and Isabelle Eberhardt--might be described as northern shadows flitting across a southern landscape. All of them belonged to the West, to the fast-greying climate of nineteenth-century Europe where the twentieth-century disintegration of women was already foreshadowed . . . . Each of them, in their own way, used love as a means of individual expression, of liberation and fulfilment within that radiant periphery." 

O, You! YOU--joy be upon me, carry me the wilder shores of LOVE! 

(and wrap me in this beautiful dust jacket)