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In this collection of essays, Naomi Clifford explores the lives of women whose stories we have forgotten or have never known. Meet Eliza Fenning, a servant whose ability to read proved fatal; teenager Maria Glenn, dragged through the courts by a vengeful would-be suitor; Susanna Meredith, who devoted herself to improving the lives of convicted women; Margaret Larney, pregnant and condemned to death; Mary Ashford, whose woeful end was staged on the opening night of a famous theatre; and French anarchist Louise Michel, welcomed, to the consternation of the great and the good, on a fact-finding visit to a London workhouse.

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'It is rare to find a writer who does their research so thoroughly and then wears their learning so lightly.' Praise for Naomi Clifford's published work

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David E. Coke F.S.A. is a consulting editor at and contributor to VauxhallHistory.org, the history offshoot of The Vauxhall Society. Between 1976 and 1979 he was curator of Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, Suffolk, where he organised the exhibition The Muses' Bower: Vauxhall Gardens 1728-1786. While Director of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (1981-1997) he curated the Vauxhall Gardens section in the 1984 Rococo exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and in 2012 The Triumph of Pleasure, an exhibition for the Foundling Museum, London.

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