The Ravishers

By Elizabeth Richards

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963389106
• ISBN13: 9780963389107
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Beatrice Richards
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Vigorous historical novel of Ireland and the West Indies

Elizabeth Richards has written an astonishingly "alive" novel of Ireland and the West Indies in the mid-1700's. The story is built around the heroine, Medbeth, a girl growing into womanhood. It follows her adventures with the local Irish and English gentry, graphically depicting the oppression of the English regime in Ireland, and the reason for extensive Irish emigration. Medbeth's own flight across the Atlantic to Barbados is told in exquisite detail, as is the colonial regime of the sugar growers in the West Indies. The story is suffused with sensuality both of Medbeth's coming of age as well as the tropical climate of Barbados, not neglecting historically accurate accounting of the slave trade. Overall, a tour de force of story telling and historic "presence." It deserves a wide audience.