Laura Quigley

The Devil Comes to Dartmoor (eBook, ePUB)

The Amazing True Story of Mary Howard, Devon's 'Demon Bride'

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Many will have heard of the ghostly white lady haunting Tavistock - the notorious Mary Howard, accused of murdering her four husbands. A few may know the true story of her lover, George Cutteford, the puritan lawyer who died illegally imprisoned in the horror of Lydford Gaol, persecuted by Mary's fourth husband - Sir Richard Grenville, the most notorious and sadistic royalist general in the Civil War. But fewer still will know the secrets George Cutteford died to protect - secrets that would destroy his own family; end Grenville's career in shame; and make a boy with no name the richest landowner in Devon. Gathered from the varying historical accounts, and with new primary matieral unearthed in an old fish market in London, comes this haunting true story of love, treachery and revenge in seventeenth-century Devon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752489803
• Artikelnr.: 37833111

Autorenporträt

Laura Quigley is a full-time writer who lives in Plymouth. Her interest in Mary Howard's life was sparked after a visit to Okehampton Castle, scene of the legendary Howard haunting. In 2010, Amnesty International held a public reading of her play, The Advocate, based on the stunning material in this book and directed by a member of the RSC.