Kitty Pleydell, orphaned and penniless, tells in old age how she was brought up to Georgian London and set down within the Rules of the Fleet, the debtors’ liberty beside the prison. There she comes to know the Doctor, a chaplain who marries all comers for a fee, and learns how fashionable London, from balls to Lord Chudleigh’s suitors, looks from the shadow of the gaol.
A richly researched picture of eighteenth-century London from the writing partnership behind Ready-Money Mortiboy. Download the free EPUB.