Marblehead's Pygmalion: Finding the Real Agnes Surriage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781540225092)

Agnes Surriage, it turns out, was more Pygmalion than Cinderella. Her role models were the fiercely independent codfish widows, "? wives of the early Marblehead fishermen who managed home and family seven months a year without their husbands. In Agnes's version of My Fair Lady, she had to act as her own Henry Higgins while making the often painful transformation from "girl of all works"? at the Fountain Inn to the charming and dignified Lady Agnes, wife of Sir Charles Henry Frankland. After deconstructing the legend for twenty-five years, author F. Marshall Bauer has unearthed a story of money, lust and vindication."

Author: F. Marshall Bauer
ISBN-10: 1540225097
ISBN-13: 9781540225092
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2010
Pages: 146
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d