Mandylion Press unearths lost literary gems written by women and weirdos in the (very) long nineteenth century. We’re talking novels, baby! Novels published sometime between the French Revolution and World War I, baby! We came up with the idea for Mandylion while pursuing our master’s in material culture at the Bard Graduate Center. We found ourselves constantly stumbling upon the most wondrous, wacky objects, paintings, and stories from the nineteenth century—the century that arguably made the world what it is today—and we became obsessed with bottling all that up and sharing it with our friends. Since it seemed a little difficult to give everyone a copy of Sarah Bernhardt’s Fantastic Inkwell (Self-Portrait as a Sphinx) (1880) or Thomas Eakin’s The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog (1884-89), we decided to publish forgotten nineteenth-century novels. These novels are languishing on the dusty library shelf or, worse yet, in the bottomless depths of Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive. These novels are out-of-print and even if they are in print, they’re often inaccessible or overly academicized. Our mission is to give these novels a little love, a little makeover, a little context—and make them intelligible and enjoyable for you all. Since we are nothing if not a dynamic duo, we are always going to release two books at a time. One chosen and introduced by Madeline. And the other chosen and introduced by Mabel.