The Painted Lady
By inkmagpie
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  • Historical Fiction
  • 19thcentury
  • bodiceripper
  • circus
  • classdivide
  • corset
  • dark
  • erotica
  • eroticshortstory
  • freakshows
  • historicalerotica
  • historicalfiction
  • lady
  • london
  • romance
  • secretidentity
  • secretlife
  • slowburn
  • soileddove
  • tattooedlady
  • tattoos
  • victorianfreakshow
  • victorianlondon
  • victorianunderworld
  • whitechapel

Description

"I'm a wild garden. I'm tangled, unyielding and thorny." London. 1883. Sally Askew is a lady, born into a world of privilege - of silk petticoats, parlour games and proposals - raised under the purist, severe gaze of her father, Lord Askew. Ivy Stunner is a freak. Every night she performs in The Distinguished Dr Harland Featherstone's Exhibition of Human Absurdities in a dark corner of Whitechapel, shedding her petticoats and displaying her painted skin to the crowd. Two lives, one woman; The Painted Lady. WARNING: Dark, adult themes.

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