Romantic Liars - Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	D. Lee
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	249
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-29458-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-312-29458-1
Barcode:	9780312294588

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