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The Ugly Sister

by Winston Graham

First published 1998

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3.7(172)

The Ugly Sister returns to early nineteenth-century Cornwall, where Emma Spry grows up marked by a facial disfigurement, family preference and the memory of her father’s death in a duel. Her mother’s ambitions for her more conventionally attractive sister leave Emma to find a different kind of self-possession.

The novel is not part of Poldark, but it uses a related historical world of Cornish houses, social judgement, religious authority and post-Napoleonic change. Its context links therefore sit with Georgian and Regency Cornwall rather than with a specific named war or battle.

Historical Periods

Regency Era1811–1820 CE Industrial Revolution in Britain1760–1830 CE Late Georgian Reform Era1815–1832 CE Cornwall in the Georgian Era1714–1837 CE

Historical people

George IV of the United Kingdom1762–1830

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