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9781934609507: Unnatural Fire
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ISBN 10 : 1934609501 ISBN 13 : 9781934609507
Editeur : Felony & Mayhem, 2010

Synopsis

It is the ragged end of the 17th century, and the countess Ashby de la Zouche is having rather a bad day. Well, year.

...Several years, actually. The money is long gone, along with the count, and while the countess has no mealy-mouthed scruples about renting out her person, fewer gentlemen than one might think appreciate the mellow, nuanced charms of a mature lady. In short, it's looking like a very hungry winter, until a new possibility arises: A job as a professional gossip columnist for one of London's daily tabloids. Peering into bedroom windows may not be the most respectable of occupations, but respectability loses a certain amount of its allure when the alternative is debtors' prison. And if someone else holds the ladder, one can discover really quite surprising--and sometimes murderously dangerous--things.

Unnatural Fire is the first novel in this very funny historical series by Fidelis Morgan, which draws on the author's expertise of the era and is partly based on the real historical figure of Delarivier "Delia" Manley, a famed 17th-century playwright, satirist, and pamphleteer.

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À propos de l'auteur

Fidelis Morgan is an English actor, director, and writer. Morgan has a strong interest in Restoration era theater, which is reflected in her historical mysteries in the Countess Ashby de la Zouche series published by Felony & Mayhem. In 1981 Morgan published the remarkable The Female Wits, which was followed by Female Playwrights of the Restoration, books that rediscovered and brought to public attention the work of forgotten female playwrights of that period, and included both biographical details on the women, and the full texts of their plays. The character of the Countess Ashby de la Zouche was partly inspired by the life of Delarivier Manley, a 17th century playwright and pamphleteer whose biography (A Woman of No Character) Morgan wrote.

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Éditeur
Felony & Mayhem
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1934609501
ISBN 13 
9781934609507
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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