{"product_id":"9780957265837","title":"Love Locked: The writings of Wakeman Frith and others circa 1720","description":"Diaries of greed, lust and love\u003cp\u003eLove Locked holds the stories of people facing a new technology, of people wrecked or profiting from a financial catastrophe, of two people impassioned by illicit love. These stories are unlocked through their diaries, letters and memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1720 newsman Wakeman Frith captures the panic and violence of a town that is in fear of the innovative Kennet Navigation. He journals the voyage of a bargemaster and his daughter Lynn along the hated waterway that will take jobs and livelihoods away from Reading to Newbury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe writes about an unlikely hero emerging from the clamour of people greedily investing in the South Sea Company. Frith is exchanging letters with his new, consuming love Catherine. She is a free-spirited artist but is a married mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir George Crockmore is spinning his memoirs promoting his rapacious schemes for gaining wealth and carnal pleasure. The mayor's wilful daughter Olivia has her own battles, writing in her secret diary of her vexations with her parents and her siblings, frustrations with her betrothed and her outrageous ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese documents and others have been collected and edited together in Love Locked. It is an insight into social and personal turbulence through the eyes of those embroiled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mic Radman Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49813744779504,"sku":"9780957265837","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780957265837","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}