Juliette de Flounoy refuses to be imprisoned by her past-the French Revolution that robbed her family of their heritage, and the rape that left her homeless-comforting herself with her dreams of becoming London's premier modiste and by her friends, the enterprising ladies of Mrs. Gerrard's, London's most exclusive seraglio.
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Even before studying eighteenth-century literature in graduate school, Evelyn Richardson decided she would have preferred to have lived in England between 1775 and 1830. Now living outside of Boston, she enjoys access to the primary sources that allow her to explore the details of the period and immerse herself in the same journals her heroines enjoyed which for her, as a longtime reference librarian, is the best of all possible worlds