The Lacquer Lady by F. Tennyson Jesse (HQ390)

Published 1930: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated endpapers

Original green embossed cloth no jacket. 406 clean pages, lightly speckled edges. Slight fading on boards consistent with age. (HQ390)

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The Lacquer Lady (1929), which recounts the true story of how European maid of honour Fanny Moroni helped bring about the fall of the Burmese Royal Family at the end of the nineteenth century.

An account of a young girl who leaves Brighton for the Kingdom of Mandalay and Burma where she becomes the favourite of the Burmese Queen. When she falls in love the destiny of that magnificent kingdom is changed forever.

Lovely telling of the true story of the silly half-European girl whose indiscretions helped bring about the fall of the Kingdom of Ava. F. Tennyson Jesse's picturing of the slowness of time passing still rests in my mind. The best parts are the descriptions of Burma, almost a character in the book. Google Books...