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Peggin's journey from maid with the Ladies of Llangollen to Pontcysyllte – a short distance but at great cost
by Christine Purkis
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 9781800993198
Pub Date: 2023-07-25
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
336 Pages
Novel based around a headstrong working-class girl in late 18th-century Wales. Peggin is a maid for the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, a real gay couple who moved in the literary circles of Byron and Wordsworth, and her brother Joe is involved the building of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Acqueduct.
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