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Romantic Liars

Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire

D Lee author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:22nd Feb '06

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Lee unfolds the 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 18th century empire building. This book is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy, transformation and triumph in the age of reason.

'The stories told by Debbie Lee in Romatic Liars - of women who led fake lives and fooled a great many people - are extraordinary.' - Sharon Ruston, Times Literary Supplement

ISBN: 9780312294588

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 485g

249 pages