The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers - Softcover

Blakewell, Sarah

 
9780099286639: The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099286637 ISBN 13: 9780099286639
Verlag: Vintage, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

The Smart is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to London and slides into a glamorous life as a high-class prostitute. In the early 1770s, she becomes involved with the intriguing Perreau twins. They begin forging bonds, living in increasing luxury until everything collapses like a house of cards. A brilliantly researched and evocative history, The Smart is full of the life of London streets, and shot through with enduring themes?sex, money, death and fame.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Bakewell is a Curator at the Wellcome Library, London, where she stumbled across this fascinating story. This is her first book.

Aus dem Klappentext

on the verge of war with America, yet foreign affairs were far from the thoughts of Londoners, spellbound by the proceedings of two spectacular trials, one involving a strange pair of twins, and the other an elegant young woman. Caroline Rudd had left Ireland for London where she came to enjoy a glamorous life as a high-class prostitute. Her mesmerizing charisma attracted the identical but opposite Perreau twins one a sober merchant, the other a raffish gambler. Caroline and the twins forged bonds and lived in luxury until everything collapsed like a house of cards and charges of forgery were laid. Meticulously researched, this evocative history brilliantly bridges the gap between aristocracy and underworld, as eighteenth-century society is drawn into the most scandalous financial smart of the age.


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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099286637
ISBN 13 
9780099286639
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
321
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