The extraordinary life of a Georgian courtesan
Murden, Sarah2020
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Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner in France during the French Revolution and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales child, notorious eighteenth-century courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott lived an amazing life in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century in London and Paris. Strikingly tall and beautiful, later lampooned as Dally the Tall in Parisian gossip columns, she left her Scottish roots and convent education behind, to re-invent herself in a marriage -la-mode, but before she was even legally an adult she was cast off and forced to survive on just her beauty and wits. The authors of this book intersperse the story of Graces tumultuous life with anecdotes of her fascinating family, from those who knew Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and who helped to abolish slavery, to those who were, like Grace, mistresses of great men.
Main title:
The extraordinary life of a Georgian courtesan / Sarah Murden, Joanne Major.
Author:
Murden, Sarah, authorMajor, Joanne, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2020.
Collation:
264 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526796417 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
941.07092941.07 MURD941.07092 MUR
Language:
English
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BRN:
1931589
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