Victoria Swann is a successful author of romance novels who becomes a champion of women's rights as she takes on the literary establishment and finds her true voice, both on and off the page. Everything changes when she goes against her publisher's demands and abandons her frivolous style to tell her own story. Set in Gilded Age Boston, "The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann" shows writing and reading as acts of defiance and revision in life and revision on the page as intimately entwined.