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Goldsboro Books

The Maid of Buttermere

The Maid of Buttermere

by Melvyn Bragg

Publisher Hodder & Stoughton

Genre: Historical Fiction

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  • Signed by the Author
  • UK First Edition
  • First Printing
  • Hardcover

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  • Book Condition & Notes

    Fine first edition with some light bumping to the top and the bottom of the spine and some yellowing to the pages. On the title page there is an inscription. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with a small indentation on the front cover.

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About the book

Set in the Lake District at the height of the Romantic age, this is the riveting story of a love affair that led to a nationwide manhunt, captured the public imagination and fascinated both Wordsworth and Coleridge: a story of wealth, title, class and faith - and deception.

It began with the arrival of a stranger in the newly fashionable 'paradise', a man calling himself the Honourable Colonel Alexander Augustus Hope, brother to the Earl of Hopetoun - handsome, charming and evidently open to the prospect of marrying a suitable young lady. Until he met Mary Robinson, the daughter of a local innkeeper renowned far beyond the Lakes as the 'Maid of Buttermere' for her beauty, grace and intelligence, and fell helplessly in love. Their mutual passion seemed at first to surmount all obstacles, but it was to bring unwanted fame and lead to tragedy.

About the Author

Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg of Wigton in the County of Cumbria, CH, HonFRS, FRSL, FBA is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He is the editor and presenter of The South Bank Show, and the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time.

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