Helen Rappaport

Beautiful For Ever

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A TRUE STORY OF LIES, BEAUTY AND BLACKMAIL IN VICTORIAN LONDON_________________________Madame Rachel had everything. A Mayfair address;

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780099570134
• ISBN-10: 0099570130
• Artikelnr.: 34758659

Autorenporträt

Helen Rappaport is an historian and Russianist with specialisms in the Victorians and revolutionary Russia. Her books include No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War, Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs, Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street ¿ Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer, Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy; Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses and Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917. A fluent Russian speaker, she has translated many classic Russian plays (including all of Chekhov¿s) and was historical consultant to Tom Stoppard¿s National Theatre trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2002). She is also a frequent contributor to television and radio documentaries, most recently Russiäs Lost Princesses (BBC2, 2014). She lives in West Dorset.