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Manchester Literature Festival

Hallie Rubenhold

Mistress of My Fate

Monday 17th October, 1pm

Becker Room, Manchester City Library, Elliot House, 151 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3WD

Tickets are free but booking is advised. Book on 0843 208 0500 or

Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is Hallie Rubenhold’s first novel and will begin a series entitled The Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot. In her candid and eyebrow-raising memoirs, the unforgettable Henrietta seeks to set the record straight about the events that shaped her. Hallie Rubenhold is an historian and broadcaster and an authority on British 18th-century social history. She has worked as a university lecturer and as a curator for the National Portrait Gallery in London and is the author of the acclaimed study of Georgian low-life, The Covent Garden Ladies and Lady Worsley’s Whim: An Eighteenth-century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce. She also acts as an historical expert for television, both behind and in front of the camera, including working as advisor in the Channel 4 series City of Vice.