Maria Fitzherbert
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
Published: January 1, 2002
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781841196169
Subjects: Biography: historical; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; United Kingdom, Great Britain; c 1700 to c 1800
First sentence: The world into which Mary Ann Smythe was born on 26 July 1756 was a curious mixture of county society and high treason, of Georgian mansions and the executioner's block, a world of primogeniture, rent-rolls, manors, county routs, advantageous marriages and, above all, land, combined with the fear of betrayal and arrest.