Pursuit of Mary McBride

By Bruce Cooke

The story begins in London, 1832.  Rebecca was an orphan, taken in by a madam where she learns to be a prostitute.  She was sent to Australia as a punishment of a crime she did not commit.  She was forced to marry a cruel man. ...

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Painter From Shanghai, The

By Jennifer Cody Epstein

The Painter From Shanghai is a fictional account of the life of Pan Yuliang. She was born Xiuqing in 1895, orphaned at five, and raised by an opium-addicted uncle. At fourteen, he sold her to a brothel, The Hall of Eternal Splendor, where her name...

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