Maura Heaphy Dutton

“... Belle was not perfect. However she does not deserve to be depicted or remembered in the manner that she has been. Her murderer should not have the final word.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

“... Lady FitzAlan lends him Margery Kempe's autobiography, which she says is the holiest book she's read save the Bible. He finds the book -- a bid for canonisation so obvious it should have been titled "If Saint Bridget Did It, So Shall I" -- amusing, but doesn't say so.”
― Jo Harkin, The Pretender

“It was 'the most natural thing in the world' that a woman should walk 'straight out of the house, abandoning her old home life, and relinquishing everything it contained,' she would later explain.”
― Hallie Rubenhold, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

“I once wanted to be a king who wrote history. Now I realise only kings write history,' Simnel says. 'Is anything true written anymore?”
― Jo Harkin, The Pretender