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The Rape of the Rose
[2070]

Author:     Hughes, Glyn
ISBN:     9780701128838
Publisher:     Chatto and Windus
Year of Publication:     1987
Edition:     First
Binding:     Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Book Condition:     Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:     As described
The Rape of the Rose
V. Good, Slight Shelfwear To Djkt. Faded Spine. 1st 1987. 1812. Defeated Revolution, Luddism, Food Riots, Espionage, The Enslavement And Sexual Abuse Of Women And Children In manufactories, And The Overwhelming Beauty Of Yorkshire, Whose Emblem Is The White Rose, Fill This Passionate And Moving Love Story. The Government Deploys 3 Times As Many Troops In Yorkshire And Lancashire As Are Granted To Wellington To Take To The Pensinsular War. In May The British Prime Minister Is Assassinated. An English Revolution Beginnining In The North Is Averted Mainly Because Of The Unorthodox Methods Of An Eccentric, Licentious General - And Because It Has No Leader. An Educated Working Man Could Be Vital To The Revolution. Mor Greave, A Self-educated Weaver And Schoolmaster Is Caught Up In Events And Hunted By The Authorities Across The Pennine Moorlands. Drawn Into An Underworld Of Duplicity, Passion And Sexual Licence That He Has Never Imagined - His Guide A Prostitute Who Does A Great Deal More Than Entertain The Troop. 372pp
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