The Wicked Lady-Skelton
  • Published:
    1952
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    Print / eBook
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    296
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First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds escape from the tedium of her life by leading a double life as a highway robber. Rich in historical detail and high on melodrama, the novel follows Barbara's infamous career of robbery, adultery and murder, without painting her entirely as a monster. Indeed, the novel's status as a bestseller owes much to King-Hall's sympathetic depiction of the frustrations of domestic life for an ambitious, intelligent woman with no means of self-expression.
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    • May-2016
    • University Of Hertfordshire Press
    • eBook (Kindle)



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