Beautiful for Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer

by Helen Rappaport

Book Overview

A TRUE STORY OF LIES, BEAUTY AND BLACKMAIL IN VICTORIAN LONDON
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Madame Rachel had everything.

A Mayfair address; the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen'; a shop full of exotic, expensive creams and potions; and a clientele of the aristocratic, the rich - and the gullible.

Little did they suspect that Madame Rachel had once been a poor fish-fryer in a disease-ridden, grubby corner...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099570130
• ISBN13: 9780099570134
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"