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Frannie is an intelligent young Black woman brought to London by her former enslaver and father, John Langton, to be a servant in the house of his friend and rival, George Benham.
The story begins in 1826 with the main character and narrator, Frannie Langton, imprisoned for allegedly murdering her employers. In her cell, she decides to write her story, addressed to her defense attorney, Mr. John Pettigrew.
Apr 4, 2019 · The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a breathtaking debut: a murder mystery that travels across the Atlantic and through the darkest channels of history. A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade.
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Apr 8, 2019 · The story of ‘The Mulatta Murderess’ begins in the city of London, where Frances “Frannie” Langton, a young, black Jamaican servant, finds herself in the Old Bailey on trial for the double murder of her master, an English scientist called George Benham, and his wife Marguerite.
May 21, 2019 · By turns lush, gritty, wry, gothic and compulsive, The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a dazzling page-turner. With as much psychological savvy as righteous wrath, Sara Collins twists together the slave narrative, bildungsroman, love story and crime novel to make something new.
A beautiful and haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night back alleys, into the enthralling heart of Georgian London.
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Mar 10, 2023 · Based on the novel of the same name by author Sara Collins, the series follows the story of the titular Frannie Langton (Karla-Simone Spence), who is accused of murdering her former employer George Benham (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his wife Marguerite (Sophie Cookson), who was also Frannie’s lover. While circumstantial evidence points to ...
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