Life mask

By Emma Donoghue

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

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.