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Arresting Beauty

✍ Scribed by Heather Cooper


Book ID
112047790
Publisher
Beachy Books
Year
2023
Tongue
da-DK
Weight
142 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781913894177

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


'Beggars can't be choosers. They really can't.'

Based on true historical events, Arresting Beauty follows the extraordinary story of Mary Ryan, who was found begging on Putney Heath at the age of ten by the celebrated Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Julia takes Mary into her magnificently bohemian household, to be trained as a maid and educated alongside her own sons, before becoming an assistant, muse and model for Julia in many of her pioneering photographs.

When Julia decides to move to Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, to live close to her great friend Alfred Tennyson, Mary--clever and rebellious--finds herself uncomfortably poised between two worlds--that of a servant girl in one, and in another, artistic assistant to Julia and befriending the likes of Tennyson, battling class and attitudes of the time to fulfil her own goals and perhaps even find love.

A sparkling historic romance novel based on a...


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