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Although i didn’t agree with the way madame treated frannie i really felt the love frannie felt for madame
The author evidently took an awful lot of time to do indepth research and with the exception of a few details all of which are... Read More
And in the end unlike grace frannie seems to fill in all of the blanks from her earlier narrative with the truth not that we as... Read More
Packaging/appearance
Mulatto murderess whore seductress manipulator witch…all the names and all the shame and the impossible weight of the color of ... Read More
Its my life i want to assemble the pieces of it myself…for every crime there are two stories and that an old bailey trial is th... Read More
Competitiveness
”in the second half of the book frannie is a lady’s maid to a wealthy georgian couple who live in london
It was also a time of women moving out of the house into careers that competed with men
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novel, through, written and good. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 816 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 9 2021.
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This is from the perspective of an enslaved woman who is clearly not just a victim
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It is such a unique story and voice being written by a jamaican former slave turned servant accused of the murder of her master and mistress
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I must say that usually they don’t hold a candle to waters’ stories but this one came dangerously close
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Frannie langton a former slave from west indies and later a servant to a wealthy london family stands accused of a double murder
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Eventually she is taken to london and abandoned by him left in service of a family of a fellow scientist who is also obsessed with finding out the secrets to racial differences she is much too smart too strong willed too outspoken to make an ideal servant and things only get more complicated when she falls in love an absolutely impossible logistically and otherwise love
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So downton abbey is certainly isn’t
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And it’s impossible to expect it all to end happily and yet frannie is such an engaging character that it’s impossible not to want for her all the things the society would deny her
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It reads like books ought to nearly impossible to put down
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