Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside her cousins, noble children of a lord and lady. At just sixteen years old, circumstance and a passionate love affair tear Henrietta away from everything she knows, leading to a new life fending for herself on the streets of 18th century London as a courtesan, gambler, and spirited intellect of the city.

Mistress of My Fate

Literature & Fiction

Hallie Rubenhold

Genre Fiction

Transworld Publishers Limited

The French Lesson (Henrietta Lightfoot)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

DOUBLEDAY

Harris's List of the Covent Garden Ladies

History

Europe

READ THE REAL STORIES OF THE FIVE WOMEN KILLED BY JACK THE RIPPERWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019- THE No. 5 Sunday Times BESTSELLER- A New York Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, GQ, Washington Post, Oprah Winfrey Magazine and Independent Summer read/History Book of the Year- Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction- Shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown Award'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth. Powerful and shaming' GUARDIAN'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMESPolly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women.Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories.'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Devastatingly good. The Five will leave you in tears, of pity and of rage.' LUCY WORSLEY'Dignity is finally returned to these unfortunate women.' PROFESSOR DAME SUE BLACK'Haunting SUNDAY TIMES'What a brilliant and necessary book' JO BAKER, author of Longbourn'Beautifully written and with the grip of a thriller, it will open your eyes and break your heart. ERIN KELLY, 'An outstanding work of history-from-below magnificent' THE SPECTATOR'Deeply researched' THE NEW YORKER

Five

Doubleday, UK

Hachette Audio

It was the divorce that scandalized Georgian England . . . She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicized divorces in history. For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one colored by passion, adventure, and the defiance of social convention. The Worsleys' story, their struggles and outrageous lifestyle, promises to shock even modern audiences.

The Scandalous Lady W: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing

FRENCH LESSON, THE

TW Adult

Convent Garden Ladies

Osburg Verlag

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