By Mary Hooper
Eliza is ousted by way of her new stepmother from her kinfolk and eventually makes her approach to London - merely to be thrown immediately into legal for stealing a mouthful of bread. At this element Eliza's lifestyles takes a few notable twists as she learns to outlive the sordid criminal lifestyles, and is rescued by way of a girl she hasn't ever met sooner than pretending to be her aunt - yet for what precisely? - and befriends Nell Gwynn who introduces her to the courtly intrigue, politics and glamour of the courtroom of King Charles. after which Eliza reveals out approximately her actual historical past.
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