Rosetta / Alexandra Joel
- Bib ID:
- 6979680
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Joel, Alexandra, 1953-, author
- Description:
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- North Sydney, NSW : Vintage book published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 2016
- ©2016
- 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some colour), facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780143780472 (paperback)
- 0143780476 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls. The pair reinvented themselves in London, where they beguiled European society and risked everything for a life of glamour and desire. Rosetta said she was American; Zeno claimed to be a brilliant Japanese professor. Together they attracted the patronage of famous writers, inventors and scientists, lords and ladies, dukes and duchesses. Rosetta revelled in a life few women of her time would have dared to embrace, yet all the while she hid her secret shame: the daughter she had left behind. This is the compelling story of Alexandra Joel's quest to uncover the truth about her scandalous great-grandmother, and the shocking century-old secret she would discover at the heart of her family."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 328).
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Rosetta : a scandalous true story
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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