The Bootlegger's Widow by McClellan, Keith H.

The Bootlegger's Widow (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500807504)

Vendor: Keith H. McClellan
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Format: Paperback
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The Bootlegger's Widow by McClellan, Keith H.

The Bootlegger's Widow

$12.99
The Bootlegger's Widow by McClellan, Keith H.

The Bootlegger's Widow

$12.99
Format: Paperback
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It is Cornwall in 1797. The winter is harsh. There are many shipwrecks. Smuggling is rife in the bays and inlets of the rugged coast. Revenue men patrol in teams. England is at war with France. The navy needs sailors, press-gangs are at work. Inland, both tin mines and china clay pits are employing workmen in dangerous conditions for very little reward. John Wesley's message is gaining in popularity among the poor, but hated by the gentry. Young Martha Baines is widowed when her husband is killed by the revenue patrol. With no obvious means of support she is prey to the evil ways of Rawdon, a rogue revenue man, and the heir to the local manor, Richard Trewarren. Trewarren dismisses his father's paternalistic approach to his tenants and sees himself as a business man impatient to modernise the estate and maximise profits. When Trewarren is led to widowed Martha Baines there seems only one outcome. Is her demise inevitable? Is his business success assured?

Author: Keith H. McClellan
ISBN-10: 1500807508
ISBN-13: 9781500807504
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/18/2014
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72d
By Keith H. McClellan
By Keith H. McClellan
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Keith McClellan is a retired head teacher. 'The Iron Snake', a play he wrote and directed for the Kenya Schools Drama Festival, and subsequently on Kenyan TV, was published by Longman. various other articles on educational matters have been published in the local and national press. He has written and performed an autobiographical sketch on Radio Oxford and is currently researching a biography of his father, A.W. McClellan, an influential public librarian in the last century. He is married with two adult children and two grandchildren.

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