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(0)Hallie Rubenhold
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created...
Author
Series
Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Grand Central Publishing ed.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside her cousins, noble children of a lord and lady. At just sixteen years old, circumstance and a passionate love affair tear Henrietta away from everything she knows, leading to a new life fending for herself on the streets of 18th century London as a courtesan, gambler,...
