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1870s: It’s up to Rose to keep her family together no matter what.
Ragged Rose
What you need to know before your trail
With the fate of her family in her hands, Rose has to make a terrible choice. Be thrown onto the streets without a penny to her name, or watch her loved ones fall into ruin . . .
Rose is keeping a dreadful secret, and too scared to ask her strict father for help, it’s down to her to keep her brother from the hangman’s noose – whatever it takes. Her innocent sister Cora is on a different road to ruin, bewitched by a handsome cad whose intentions are anything but gallant.
When Rose’s father discovers that his children have disgraced his name he turns them onto the street. Penniless, homeless and with the noose tightening, Rose must rescue her brother and keep her sister from the streets, even if it means putting herself in the most terrible danger
Travel Guide
Dilly Court writes an authors note at the end of the book where she tells of her desire to illustrate the difficulties and restraints under which women had to live under in Victorian times.
Women who rebelled against expectation at the time were either cast aside or ignored. Aunt Polly who opens her house to fallen women would not have been accepted either. This home is fictional but based on real ones which existed at the time.
St Luke’s hospital and the city of London lying in hospital did exist with the Vinegar works in the next street.
East Ham Palace in East London is where Dilly herself used to go to dance which was a variety theatre until it was demolished in the 1950s
Streetview Maps
A) London - Barbican theatre
C) London - Old Street
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Ragged Rose
Author/Guide: Dilly Court Destination: London Departure Time: 1870s onwards
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