Inventing Victoria

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Bolden, Tonya, author.

  Title: Inventing Victoria / by Tonya Bolden.

  Description: New York : Bloomsbury, 2019.

  Summary: Essie, a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, is offered the opportunity to leave her shameful past and be transformed into an educated, high-society woman in Washington, D.C.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018024642 (print) | LCCN 2018031860 (e-book)

  ISBN 978-1-68119-807-1 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-68119-808-8 (e-book)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Identity—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865–1877)—Fiction. | Savannah (Ga.)—History—19th century—Fiction. | Washington (D.C.)—History—19th century—Fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.B635855 Inv 2019 (print) | LCC PZ7.B635855 (e-book) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024642

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