Download Book Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton
PDF by Hughes, Rowland; King-Hall, Magdalen
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Format: PDF Language: English Edition: 1 Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press Publication Date of the Electronic Edition: 2016
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ISBN: 9781909291348, 9781909291362
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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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