My lady scandalous, the amazing life and outrageous times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, royal courtesan, by Jo Manning
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Label
My lady scandalous, the amazing life and outrageous times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, royal courtesan, by Jo Manning
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-404) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
My lady scandalous
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
60419653
Responsibility statement
by Jo Manning
Sub title
the amazing life and outrageous times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, royal courtesan
Summary
This richly raucous history traverses the notoriously licentious British Regency era in the company of its most celebrated courtesan. Following a simple Edinburgh girlhood, Grace Dalrymple came of age in the sin city of London. As an impressionable bride of seventeen who married a man more than twice her age, Grace's remarkable beauty soon attracted the attentions of other men, and a disastrous liaison provoked her philandering husband to pursue a divorce. She became mistress of the most infamous peer in England, Lord Cholmondeley, who commissioned her Gainsborough portrait the same year she gave birth to a daughter (who may have been the child of the Prince of Wales). She was soon to find a new protector in France's richest man, Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, but this turned perilous when Orleans fell to the guillotine, just as Grace narrowly escaped with her life. --From publisher description