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Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.

'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries "The Maid of Buttermere", a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-century writers . . . It is a fine story . . . This is historical fiction with a human face'
Peter Ackroyd, The Times

'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria'
Thomas Keneally

'A triumph . . . I am overwhelmingly impressed'
Beryl Bainbridge

'Bragg achieves the most difficult of feats, the telling of the changing perceptions and ideals of a radical age . . . He is also as powerful as ever in his description of nature'
Sunday Times

The Maid of Buttermere

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Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.'This is the story... Read more

    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 01/01/1993
    ISBN13: 9780340423738, 978-0340423738
    ISBN10: 0340423730

    Number of Pages: 464

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.

    'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope, who travels to the North, where eventually he marries "The Maid of Buttermere", a young woman whose natural beauty inspired the dreams and confirmed the theories of various early nineteenth-century writers . . . It is a fine story . . . This is historical fiction with a human face'
    Peter Ackroyd, The Times

    'A skilled, ornate and convincing examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria'
    Thomas Keneally

    'A triumph . . . I am overwhelmingly impressed'
    Beryl Bainbridge

    'Bragg achieves the most difficult of feats, the telling of the changing perceptions and ideals of a radical age . . . He is also as powerful as ever in his description of nature'
    Sunday Times

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