Carolly Erickson
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Recounts the story of Mary Bryant, who, in the early 1790s, escaped captivity in Australia with her husband, two small children, and seven other convicts, sailing to Indonesia, where they managed to elude their captors for several weeks before being sent back to England for execution.
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Awaiting her execution, Marie Antoinette writes the story of her life from her prison cell, in a diary that describes her privileged childhood as an Austrian archduchess, years as the glamorous mistress of Versailles, love affair with a handsome Swedish diplomat, flight from France, and imprisonment during the French Revolution.