Margaret C. Jones lived in the U.S. for nine years and taught literature and history at Central Washington University (1990-92). She later lived in Bristol, UK, employed as a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England. Her PhD (in American studies) is from Purdue University, Indiana. She has published three biographies: The Adventurous Life of Amelia Edwards (Bloomsbury, 2022); Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians (Pen & Sword, 2018); Heretics and Hellraisers (U. of Texas Press, 1993). She lives and writes in Stroud, UK, but spends part of each year in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Survivor; 2 Missionaries; 3 Spies like Us; 4 Jeff, Varina-and 'Little Mary'; 5 Thomas; 6 Things Fall Apart; 7 Telling it Slant; 8 Teacher to the Free; 9 Vigilantes; 10 Alone Again; 11 Myth Makers; Appendix I: People in Mary Richards' world; Appendix II: Mary Richards: Biographical timeline; Endnotes; Bibliography.