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This volume examines the literature and culture of nineteenth
century America, covering genres such as the early American novel,
realist fiction and historical romance.
First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the
Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in
late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara
Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage,
who finds escape from the tedium of her life by leading a double
life as a highway robber. Rich in historical detail and high on
melodrama, the novel follows Barbara's infamous career of robbery,
adultery and murder, without painting her entirely as a monster.
Indeed, the novel's status as a bestseller owes much to King-Hall's
sympathetic depiction of the frustrations of domestic life for an
ambitious, intelligent woman with no means of self-expression.
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