Life mask

By Emma Donoghue

Subjects: History, London (england), fiction, Nobility, Actresses, Fiction, Courts and courtiers, London (England), Fiction, historical, Actors, fiction, Women sculptors, Fiction, historical, general, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, general

Description: In eighteenth-century England, the eccentric widow, Mrs. Damer, works as the period's only woman sculptor, the horse race innovator, Lord Derby, endures public mockery, and a Drury Lane actress endeavors to gain entry into aristocratic circles.