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Theatre of marvels

With her success riding on her ability to keep her real identity secret, Zillah, an orphan from the slums of London who has achieved theatrical fame as The Great Amazonia, "a savage queen from darkest Africa," finds her planning upended when she is torn between two men--a mysterious black...

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Main Author: Dillsworth, Lianne (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher, [2022]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Women, Black > England > Fiction.
Actresses > Fiction.
Orphans > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Women, Black > Ethnic identity > Fiction.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Summary: With her success riding on her ability to keep her real identity secret, Zillah, an orphan from the slums of London who has achieved theatrical fame as The Great Amazonia, "a savage queen from darkest Africa," finds her planning upended when she is torn between two men--a mysterious black gentleman and her boss's friend who offers her the world.
Physical Description: viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780358627913
0358627915
Author Notes: In 2018, LIANNE DILLSWORTH graduated from Royal Holloway with a MA in Creative Writing with distinction, and in 2019, she won a place on the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. She was awarded a bursary place for underrepresented writers on the Jericho Writers Self-Editing course and short-listed for the SI Leeds Literary Prize. She also holds an MA in Victorian studies and currently lives in London, where she works for the government on growing diversity within the Civil Service.

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