Bibliograph

An infamous mistress, the life, loves and family of the celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Joanne Major and Sarah Murden

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An infamous mistress, the life, loves and family of the celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Joanne Major and Sarah Murden

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An infamous mistress

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joanne Major and Sarah Murden

Sub title

the life, loves and family of the celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott

Summary

Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner in France during the French Revolution, and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales' child, notorious courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott lived an amazing life in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London and Paris. Strikingly tall and beautiful, later lampooned as "Dally the Tall" in newspaper gossip columns, she left her Scottish roots and convent education behind to reinvent herself in a "marriage -l̉a-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 engaging and, at times, scandalous book intersperse the story of Grace's tumultuous life with a family history that traces her ancestors from their origin in the Scottish borders, to their move south to London. It follows them to France, America, India, Africa, and elsewhere, offering a broad insight into the social history of the Georgian era, comprising the ups and downs, the highs and lows of life at that time

Target audience

adult

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