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Authors' spouses Fiction Authors, English Family relationships Fiction England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Falconer, James Lionel (Fictitious character) Fiction Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Fiction Historical fiction Large type books Merchants Merchants Fiction Widows FictionBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "Working at his father's market stall in Victorian England, James Lionel Falconer determines to become a merchant prince. Hardworking and trustworthy, he catches the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious London shipping company. When threats against his reputation--and his life--emerge, James must prove that he truly is the master of his fate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: A charismatic and ambitious businessman in Victorian England faces the tragic ruin of everything he has worked to achieve before a royal summons gives him a chance to prove his talents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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Summary: Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. Even as a boy working in his father's market stall in Camden, he was determined to become a merchant prince. Through hard work and a single-minded determination, James rises quickly through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Bradford 2018Arnold, Gaynor.
Summary: "In creating my [the author's] own story of Alfred and Dorothea Gibson, I have taken a novelist's liberties as I explored an imaginative path through their relationship. . . . Inspired by "threads of Dickens's own preoccupations with things strange, romantic, and melodramatic rather than realistic ... at times, characters from his novels make a transmuted appearance as characters in his life....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009