OLDER FICTION
Hooper, Mary

The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose

(4) YA In 1670, after her stepmother kicks her out, fifteen-year-old Eliza travels to London to find her father. She is jailed for stealing food, then rescued, forced to work, and rescued again; she saves the king and finally discovers her true identity. Though much of the story is far-fetched, Hooper effectively conveys the precariousness of life in seventeenth-century England.

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