A Type of Beauty, the story of Kathleen Newton (1854-1882)
Cape Press publishes:
A Type of Beauty by Patricia O’Reilly is the dramatised account of the life of Kathleen Newton (1854-1882) whose love affair with French artist Jacques Tissot (1836-1902) scandalised Victorian Society.
When Kate Kelly, beautiful and feisty, travels to India to marry a man she has never seen, she thinks her life is over. But it is just the beginning. She ends up back in London with an unconsummated marriage, a pending divorce and pregnant by a man she despises. But she never loses hope of finding happiness and does in Paris when she meets sensual and mysterious French painter Jacques Tissot. Complications test their love for each other until destiny steps in.
A Type of Beauty by Patricia O’Reilly is the dramatised account of the life of Kathleen Newton (1854-1882) whose love affair with French artist Jacques Tissot (1836-1902) scandalised Victorian Society.
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