![]() ![]() ![]() As a novelist, Pullinger takes us considerably farther, confessing in her Author's Note to playing "fast and loose with the facts" to flesh out her maid's view of Lucie Duff Gordon and to postulate what happened after Sally's dismissal.Īuthors of historical fiction have been playing fast and loose for centuries, either by mingling history and histrionics the way Shakespeare did, or by inserting invented characters into real-life events, or - increasingly - riffing on historical personalities without undue concern for strict factuality. ![]() That's as far as recorded history takes Sally. Duff Gordon consented to the marriage, but - with a spiteful rigidity uncharacteristic of such a free-wheeling soul - decreed that Sally be bundled back to England, after giving her baby to Omar's first wife. Though he already had a wife and chiId, Egyptian law permitted Omar to marry Sally too. ![]()
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