Elizabeth Smart
The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
Fourth Estate
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2015
Paperback previously published by Panther Books 1980 and Paladin 1991
First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd in association with Polytantric Press 1978
Copyright © the literary estate of Elizabeth Smart
The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780008155742
Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780008155759
Version: 2015-07-10
Table of Contents
Part Two: Signed on for the Duration
Part Five: The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
Part Six: Kinship Is Established
Paving-Stones Play the Part of the Water Snakes in the Ancient Mariner
Sometimes Pity Seeps in Even for the Self-Pitying
A Publican’s Wife Tells Her Story
Part Eight: Caught Up With the People and the Dangers They Have Passed
Part Nine: The Story of Our Life
Trying to Write, Trying to Survive
