Romantic Liars: Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire

by Debbie Lee

They were homeless wanderers, prostitutes, orphans, and factory girls. They hurdled terrible obstacles, reinvented themselves as men, goddesses, witches, and princesses to become legends in their own right as England rose to world power. No other group of people rivaled their inventiveness or their grip on the nation's imagination. Debbie Lee unfolds the small stories of six women, with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312294581
• ISBN13: 9780312294588
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"