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Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 0002259494ISBN 13: 9780002259491
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Verlag: -, 2000
ISBN 10: 0002259494ISBN 13: 9780002259491
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. My Name is Martha Brown This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.
Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2000
ISBN 10: 0002259494ISBN 13: 9780002259491
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Based on a true story, a captivating tale of passionate love and violent death in 1850s Dorset. In 1856, Martha Brown was publicly hanged for the brutal murder of her husband. Among those who witnessed her death was a sixteen-year-old local lad, and the memory of her execution haunted him for the rest of his life. Corresponding to a friend many years later, he wrote thus: 'I remember what a fine figure she showed against the sky as she hung in the misty rain, and how the tight black silk gown set off her shape as she wheeled half-round and back.' The writer was Thomas Hardy. Martha Brown was an ordinary woman of humble parentage, probably illiterate. Very little is known about her. Despite a small team of dedicated researchers delving into old records and original sources to try and piece together her life story, she remains tantalising and elusive, seemingly exercising a strange and powerful spell, even from the grave. We do know that John Brown was her second husband. His age on the marriage certificate is given as twenty-one; Martha's as forty-one. Why did John and Martha marry? After all, she was twenty years his senior -- hardly commonplace as we reach the millennium, never mind the 1850s. She was described as 'a wonderful-looking woman with beautiful curls'. It is easy to see why she would have married a handsome, younger, virile man who could perhaps release her from a life of tedium and drudgery. Why did he marry Martha? Some people have suggested it was for money -- she'd inherited a legacy of some fifty pounds from her deceased first husband. Did the age difference that eventually led him into the arms of a much younger and prettier girl lead to jealousy, a precipitating factor in the tragedy -- if Martha did indeed kill John? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.