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Books: The tempestuous life and loves of La Belle Pamela The Harp Lesson By Emma Tennant MAIA pounds 8.99 pounds 8.99 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20051002
Author:Lesley McDowell

Emma Tennant likes to toy with the lives of fictional characters (Jane Austen's for example) in her work, but she plays games with real people too. Her 2002 novel Felony had all sorts of fun with the bond between Constance Fenimore Cooper and Henry James, and here she speculates about the life of one of her ancestors.

If you want to write about a woman six generations back, it helps if she's a risqu old bird, and they don't come more risqu than La Belle Pamela, or Pamela Sims. Her origins are hazy " she seems to have been brought up a washerwoman's daughter on the English coast, until a ...

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