<p>Part of the British Library Women Writers series, rediscovering forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers with beautiful new editions\nJulia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a more exciting and glamorous life away from the drab suburbia of her upbringing. Her work in a fashionable boutique in the West End gives her the personal freedom that she craves but escape from her parental home into marriage soon leads to boredom and frustration. She begins a passionate affair with a younger man, which has deadly consequences.\nBased on the events of a sensational murder trial in the 1920s – the Thompson/Bywaters case – Julia becomes trapped by her sex and class in a criminal justice system in which she has no control. Julia finds herself the victim of society’s expectations of lower-middle- class female behavior and incriminated by her own words.\nTennyson Jesse creates a flawed, doomed heroine in a novel of creeping unease that continues to haunt long after the last page is turned.\nPart of a curated collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers, the British Library Women Writers series highlights the best middlebrow fiction from the 1910s to the 1960s, offering escapism, popular appeal and plenty of period detail to amuse, surprise and inform.</p>

A Pin to See the Peepshow (British Library Women Writers)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jesse, F. Tennyson

Thrillers & Suspense

British Library Publishing

<p>Fanny Moroni leaves her Brighton school for the city of Mandalay. It is the 1880's, the last years of the opulent Kingdom of Burma, ripe for annexation by the empires of Europe. Fanny becomes the favorite of the Burmese Queen, and is swept into the magnificent court life of the Royal Palace. Now a lacquer lady in a scented world, Fanny falls in love and the destiny of the Kingdom is altered forever...</p>

The Lacquer Lady (A Virago Modern Classic)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

DIAL PRESS

LACQUER LADY

Genre Fiction

Virago Press Ltd.

The White Riband

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

History

BiblioLife

1921 novel. "That was how they spoke of her story in the duchy's drawing-rooms; for what had Loveday been, at the most charitable count, but a young female-less humanly speaking, even a young person? And what was the spring of her mad crimes but folly, mere weak, feminine folly? Even an improper motive-one of those overpowering passions one reads about rather surreptitiously in the delightful works of that dear, naughty, departed Lord Byron-would have been somehow more ... more ... satisfactory."

The White Riband: The Young Female's Folly

Dodo Pr

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The Saga Of San Demetrio

Military

Pratt Press

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