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Book 2005

Misfortune

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Publisher
Little Brown,
Published
2005
  • Passing (Identity)
  • Aristocracy (Social class)
  • Fiction
  • Boys
  • Sex role
  • Eccentrics and eccentricities
  • Gender identity
  • Social life and customs

When Lord Geoffroy Loveall finds an abandoned baby, he treats the child as his daughter, despite the male gender of the child, who grows up desperately conflicted in the richest home in nineteenth-century England.