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Transworld has bought the rights to an "utterly rivetting, edge-of-your-seat series" by historian Hallie Rubenhold. Jane Lawson, senior editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in 3-book deal for an undisclosed sum, from Claire Paterson at Janklow & Nesbit.
The Confessions of Mrs Lightfoot, With Some Advice for Women in General by Hallie Rubenhold is the first in a trilogy of books. Transworld will publish the first title in Spring 2011. The following titles are to be confirmed.
Lawson said: "An utterly rivetting, edge-of-your-seat, series featuring an 18th century heroine, Henrietta Lightfoot: courtesan, adventuress, spy and erstwhile murderess. It had all of us here hooked. With potential to become a really popular series, this is a female Flashman who can show the chaps a thing or two, while deliciously rollocking through one of the most interesting and dashing periods in history. Rubenhold will be a major author for us for the future."
Rubenhold is a British historian, she has taught university courses on the history of London and on eighteenth-century painting, and has lectured on a variety of aspects of British social, literary and art history.
She has previously written three books, The Covent Garden Ladies; Pimp General Jack and The Extraordinary Story of Harris's List (Tempus), Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies; Sex in the City in Georgian Britain (Tempus) and Lady Worsley's Whim (Chatto & Windus).