What is the name of the novel writen by Lucia St. Clair Robson that includes the second wife of General Benedict Arnold in the story?
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Shadow Patriots Shadow Patriots is 2005 historical novel by Lucia St. Clair Robson. It tells of the Culper Ring, a group of George Washington's spies operating out of New York City during the Revolution. The story includes familiar names—Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benedict Arnold, Peggy Shippen—and one unfamiliar number, the mysterious Spy 355. 355 was the Culpers' code for "lady," and after 225 years she remains a nameless heroine who, many historians believe, died for her country.
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Peggy Shippen Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (July 11, 1760 – August 24, 1804) was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold. Shippen garnered notoriety for being the highest-paid spy in the American Revolution.
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The Husband's Secret The Husband's Secret is a novel by Liane Moriarty that was first published on 30 July 2013. The novel tells the story of three women, whose lives unexpectedly interconnect after one of them discovers a devastating secret.
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The Castle of Wolfenbach The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) is the most famous novel written by the English Gothic novelist Eliza Parsons. First published in two volumes during 1793, it was one of the seven "horrid novels" recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe to Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's novel "Northanger Abbey" and was an important early work in the genre, predating both Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and Monk Lewis's "The Monk".
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Edmund Bertram Edmund Bertram is a lead character in Jane Austen's 1814 novel "Mansfield Park". He is Sir Thomas's second son and plans to be ordained as a clergyman.
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John Renshaw Starr John Ashford Renshaw Starr (born 6 August 1908 – 1996) was an artist and a soldier during the Second World War. One of two sons of an American father, Alfred Demarest Starr, a bookkeeper who became a naturalised British subject, and an English mother, Ethel Renshaw, he was a grandson of William Robert Renshaw. His story is told in "The Starr Affair" (by Jean Overton Fuller).
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Little Women Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher.
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Cora Crane Cora Crane, born Cora Ethel Eaton Howarth (July 12, 1868 – September 5, 1910) was an American businesswoman, nightclub and bordello owner, writer and journalist. She is best known as the common-law wife of writer Stephen Crane from 1896 to his death in 1900, and took his name although they never married. She was still legally married to her second husband, Captain Donald William Stewart, a British military officer who had served in India and then as British Resident of the Gold Coast, where he was a key figure in the War of the Golden Stool (1900) between the British and the Ashanti Empire in present-day Ghana.
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Clara Vaughan Clara Vaughan is a sensation novel by R. D. Blackmore, who was later to achieve lasting fame for another Romantic novel, "Lorna Doone". It was written in 1853 and published anonymously in 1864. It was Blackmore's first novel. The novel was generally well received by the public, though some reviewers at the time believed it to have been written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and criticised its author for not knowing about the law.
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An Infamous Army An Infamous Army is a novel by Georgette Heyer. In this novel Heyer combines her penchant for meticulously researched historical novels with her more popular period romances. So in addition to being a Regency romance, it is one of the most historically accurate and vividly narrated descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo. An Infamous Army completes the sequence begun with "These Old Shades", and is also a sequel to "Regency Buck".
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Helena (Machado de Assis novel) Helena is a novel written by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. It was first published in 1876.
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Avalon (novel) Avalon is a 1965 novel by the American author Anya Seton.
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Monks (Oliver Twist) Edward "Monks" Leeford is a character in the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens. He is actually the criminally-inclined half-brother of Oliver Twist, but he hides his identity. Monks' parents separated when he was a child, and his father had a relationship with a young woman, Agnes Fleming. This resulted in Agnes' pregnancy. She died in childbirth after giving birth to the baby that would be named Oliver Twist.
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Hornblower and the Widow McCool "Hornblower and the Widow McCool" is a short story by C. S. Forester, featuring his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel "Hornblower and the Crisis" and another short story, "The Last Encounter". It is titled "Hornblower's Temptation" in certain US editions.
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Speak (Hall novel) Speak is a 2015 novel by Louisa Hall. It is her second novel, after "The Carriage House". The novel was well received. The novel was inspired by a story in the "New York Times".
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Work: A Story of Experience Work: A Story of Experience, first published in 1873, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women", set in the times before and after the American Civil War.
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The Soldier and the Gentlewoman The Soldier and the Gentlewoman is a 1932 novel by Welsh English-language writer Hilda Vaughan.
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Allison Pataki Allison Pataki (born in 1984) is an American author and journalist. Her four historical novels are "The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America", "The Accidental Empress", "Sisi, Empress on Her Own", and "Where the Light Falls".
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Military career of Benedict Arnold, 1781 The military career of Benedict Arnold in 1781 consisted of service in the British Army. Arnold had changed sides in September 1780, after his plot was exposed to surrender the key Continental Army outpost at West Point. He spent the rest of 1780 recruiting Loyalists for a new regiment called the American Legion. Arnold was then sent to Virginia with 1,600 men in late December by General Sir Henry Clinton, with instructions to raid Richmond and then establish a strong fortification at Portsmouth.
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Quiet as a Nun Quiet as a Nun is a thriller novel, written by Antonia Fraser. First published in 1977, it features Fraser's sleuthing heroine Jemima Shore as she revisits the convent where she was schooled, following the mysterious death of one of the nuns. A six-part television dramatisation of the book (written by Julia Jones) was part of ITV's anthology series "Armchair Thriller" in 1978.
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Annie French Hector Annie French Hector (Dublin, Ireland, 1825 – London, 10 July 1902) was a 19th-century popular novelist who wrote under the pen name "Mrs Alexander".
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Charlotte Anne Eaton Charlotte Anne Eaton (1788–1859), née Waldie, was an English banker, travel writer, memoirist and novelist.