The Ballad of Mary Kearney

Katherine Mezzacappa (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

350 Seiten

2025
Addison & Highsmith Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-59211-509-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In County Down, Ireland, in 1767, a nobleman secretly marries his servant, in defiance of law, class, and religion. Can their love survive tumultuous times?An impoverished tenant farmer sends his seventeen-year-old daughter Mary into service at the home of his Ascendancy landlord. Viscount Kilkeel, the impulsive but idealistic son of Lord Goward, lately returned from the Grand Tour, cohabits openly there with his married mistress – but at least her presence means he is not distracted by pretty servants. When Lady Mitchelstown dies, however, only Mary is willing to lay out the corpse. Impressed, Kilkeel decides to educate her and eventually falls in love. Under the Penal Laws, a Protestant and a Catholic marriage is treasonous, so to the world, Mary is his kept woman, not accepted by Kilkeel's class and shunned by her own.Encouraged by American independence and the overthrow of the French monarchy, the calls for liberty in Ireland grow ever stronger. Through Mary's influence, James Kilkeel joins the United Irishmen and prepares for rebellion. In the space of a few weeks, around thirty thousand Irish die in the struggle, but the rising is put down without mercy.

Autor

Katherine’ s short fiction in a variety of genres has been published worldwide. She has in addition published academically in the field of 19th-century ephemeral illustrated fiction. She holds a Bachelor’ s degree in History of Art from UEA, an M.Litt. in English Literature from Durham, and a Masters in Creative Writing from Canterbury Christ Church (all UK). Katherine is a committee member of the Irish Writers Union and holds professional membership of the Society of Authors, the Historical Novel Society (she is a regular reviewer for their quarterly journal and was on the organizing committee

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-59211-509-8 / 1592115098
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59211-509-9 / 9781592115099
• Zustand: Neuware