Life mask
In late eighteenth-century England, three celebrated Londoners strike up a controversial triangular relationship.
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Genre |
Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Love stories. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 1443406953
- ISBN: 9781443406956
- Physical Description 613 pages : illustrations
- Edition Harper Perennial ed.
- Publisher Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2011.
- Copyright ©2004
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: London : Virago, 2004. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 606). |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 19.99 |
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Summary
Life Mask
The Honourable Mrs. Damer is a young widow of eccentric tastes, the only female sculptor of her time. The Earl of Derby, inventor of the horse race that bears his name, is the richest man in the House of Lords--and the ugliest. Miss Eliza Farren, born a nobody, now reigns as the Queen of Comedy at Drury Lane Theatre. In a time of looming war and terrorism, of glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of the Whig Party work to topple a tyrannical prime minister and a lunatic king. Their marriages and friendships stretch or break; political liaisons prove as dangerous as erotic ones. Will Eliza Farren ever gain entry to that elite circle that calls itself the World? Can Lord Derby's pride endure public mockery of his long, unconsummated courtship of the actress? And how is Anne Damer ever to silence the whispers of Sapphism that haunt her? Let the games begin . . .