Lee unfolds the stories of six women with a cast of supporting characters such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, Stamford Raffles and Napoleon against the grand narrative of England's 18th century empire building. This book is a meticulously researched, spellbinding tale of tragedy, transformation and triumph in the age of reason.

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'The stories told by Debbie Lee in Romatic Liars - of women who led fake lives and fooled a great many people - are extraordinary.' - Sharon Ruston, Times Literary Supplement

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DEBBIE LEE is Assistant Professor of English, Washington State University, USA.

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Book Title: Romantic Liars
Book Subtitle: Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire
Authors: Debbie Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07740-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29458-8Published: 22 February 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07740-0Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 249
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Clinical Psychology, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Crossings

The Goddess and the Anorexic

The Gentleman, the Witch, and the Beauty

The Governor and the Princess

Afterword

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