A legendary love that defied death itself! They called her wanton, whore,and worse.... She was Anne Oldfield, whose burning determinatin had broughther up from the squalid slums of Queen Anne's London to become the greatestacrtess of her day, and whose beauty kindled desirei n the heart of everyman who saw her.... He was Arthur Maynwaring, the dark, intense youngaristocrat whose fierce commitment to an ideal laid him open to themurderous treachery of the cut-throat political intrigues around him....Together they defied the world in their passionate struggle for the right tolive the love that was to become a legend in this, England's most glitteringand cynical age.