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Romantic liars : obscure women who became impostors and challenged an empire / Debbie Lee.
LIBRA CT9980 .L44 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Debbie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impostors and imposture--England--Biography.
- Impostors and imposture.
- Women--England--Biography.
- Women.
- Poor women.
- England.
- Poor women--England--Biography.
- England--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 249 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Summary:
- They were homeless wanderers, prostitutes, orphans, and factory girls. They hurdled terrible obstacles, reinvented themselves as men, goddesses, witches, and princesses to become legends in their own right as England rose to world power. No other group of people rivaled their inventiveness or their grip on the nation's imagination. Debbie Lee unfolds the small stories of six women, with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles, and Napoleon, against the grand narrative of England's eighteenth-century empire building. "Romantic Liars: Obscure Women who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy, transformation and triumph in the age of reason.
- Contents:
- 1 Crossings 1
- 2 The Goddess and the Anorexic 21
- 3 The Gentleman, the Witch, and the Beauty 79
- 4 The Governor and the Princess 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312294581
- OCLC:
- 61448292
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