BOOKS - Arresting Beauty
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Arresting Beauty
Author: Heather Cooper
Year: September 30, 2023
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.8 MB
Language: English
Year: September 30, 2023
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.8 MB
Language: English
'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 true-life story.
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