Christine Trent
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Meet the bold women who dare to be employed in unusual professions, serving their royal customers while trying to make their places in changing-and frequently dangerous-worlds of glittering deceit and power. The Queens Dollmaker: From poverty to success, a French dollmaker is rising on the tide of royal favor. But when the seeds of revolution are sown, will she follow her benefactress to the guillotine? A Royal Likeness: An apprentice to the great...
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As heiress to the famous Laurent Fashion Dolls business, Marguerite Ashby's future seems secure. But France still seethes with violence in the wake of the Revolution. And when Marguerite's husband is killed during a riot, the young widow travels to Edinburgh and becomes apprentice to her old friend, Marie Tussaud, who has established a wax exhibition. When Prime Minister William Pitt commissions a wax figure of Admiral Nelson, Marguerite becomes immersed...