{"product_id":"9781906469559","title":"The Story of Lilly Dawson","description":"Shipwrecked as a young girl, middle-class Lilly Dawson is kidnapped by smugglers and forced to work as their servant. Terrified by the prospect of a forced marriage, this Victorian Cinderella flees captivity and has to navigate an outside world she finds both oppressive and dangerous. The Story of Lilly Dawson is a romping tale of pirates, outlaws, murder, mistaken identity, lust and betrayal.\u003cp\u003eBest known for The Night Side of Nature, Crowe was one of the most successful women novelists of the mid-nineteenth century. Through her memorable heroine, Crowe insists that woman can \"play a noble part in the world's history, if man would . . . not treat her like a full-grown baby to be flattered and spoilt on the one hand, and coerced and restricted on the other, vibrating between royal rule and slavish serfdom\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Ruth Heholt argues in her introduction, The Story of Lilly Dawson places Crowe in the vanguard of the emerging sensation genre and shows her to be a visionary and radical thinker and writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victorian Secrets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039416467696,"sku":"9781906469559","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906469559_p0.jpg?v=1763616878","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906469559","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}