The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Description:

It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruelty. They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men.

subjects: Classic Literature,  Fiction,  History,  Sir Blakeney, Percy (Fictitious character),  British,  Fiction, action & adventure,  Fiction, historical,  France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction,  Blakeney, percy, sir (fictitious character), fiction,  France, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Historical Fiction,  English literature,  Fiction, general,  France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction,  Adventure stories,  British -- France -- Fiction,  Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Fiction

Places: France

Times: Revolution, 1789-1799