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Beautiful For Ever

Beautiful For Ever

Helen Rappaport

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2012
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Historia social y cultural
ISBN:
9780099570134
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A TRUE STORY OF LIES BEAUTY AND BLACKMAIL IN VICTORIAN LONDON_________________________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 of Victorian London. Her shop in New Bond Street lured her wealthy clients in their droves enticed by the promise of eternal beauty. What they found there was a con-woman and fraudster who made a career out of lies treachery and the desperate hopes of women wanting to be ’beautiful for ever’. Beautiful For Ever is a thrilling tale of love affairs scandal blackmail high-profile court cases suicide and fraud with the extraordinary Madame Rachel right at the centre of it all.

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