num_pages: 528
description: 19th century London produced a fine flowering of eccentrics and individualists. Chief among them was Harriette Wilson, whose patrons included most of the distinguished men of the day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron. She held court in a box at the opera, attended by statesmen, poets, national heroes, aristocrats, members of the beau monde, and students who hoped to be immortalized by her glance. She wrote these memoirs in middle age, when she had fallen out of favor, and she advised her former lovers that 200 of them would be edited out. The result is an elegant, zestful, unrepentant memoir, which offers intimately detailed portraits of the Regency demimonde.
language: English
title: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Greatest Courtesan of Her Age
titlecomplete: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Greatest Courtesan of Her Age
genres: 19th Century, Biography, Research, Regency, History, British Literature, Historical, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 167
publisher: Orion Publishing