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Rosetta / a scandalous true story Alexandra Joel.

Rosetta / a scandalous true story Alexandra Joel.
Rosetta /
Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls. The pair reinvented themselves in London, where they beguiled European society and risked everything for a life of glamour and desire. Rosetta said she was American; Zeno claimed to be a brilliant Japanese professor. Together they attracted the patronage of famous writers, inventors and scientists, lords and ladies, dukes and duchesses. Rosetta revelled in a life few women of her time would have dared to embrace, yet all the while she hid her secret shame: the daughter she had left behind. This is the compelling story of Alexandra Joel's quest to uncover the truth about her scandalous great-grandmother, and the shocking century-old secret she would discover at the heart of her family.

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Record Number 648189
ISBN 9780143780472
Author Joel, Alexandra
Title Rosetta / a scandalous true story Alexandra Joel.
Cover title Rosetta :
Publication details North Sydney, NSW : Vintage book published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 2016.
Pagination etc. 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some colour), facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm.
Summary Note Headstrong and beautiful, in 1905 Rosetta escaped her safe Melbourne life, deserting her respectable husband and five-year-old daughter to run away with Zeno the Magnificent, a half-Chinese fortune teller and seducer of souls. The pair reinvented themselves in London, where they beguiled European society and risked everything for a life of glamour and desire. Rosetta said she was American; Zeno claimed to be a brilliant Japanese professor. Together they attracted the patronage of famous writers, inventors and scientists, lords and ladies, dukes and duchesses. Rosetta revelled in a life few women of her time would have dared to embrace, yet all the while she hid her secret shame: the daughter she had left behind. This is the compelling story of Alexandra Joel's quest to uncover the truth about her scandalous great-grandmother, and the shocking century-old secret she would discover at the heart of her family.
Subject Solomon, Rosetta
Family secrets -- Australia -- Biography
Intermarriage -- Australia
Runaway wives -- Australia -- Biography
Women -- Australia -- Biography
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