The world's lure
Subtitle: fair women, their loves, their power, their fates
By: by Alexander von Gleichen-Russwurm, translated by Hannah Waller.
Contributors: Waller, Hannah, tr.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1927
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Women -- Biography.; Favorites, Royal.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Fair women.
Table of contents: title: Introductory: Beauty and dæmony of woman.; title: Queens of love and courtesans: Laīs of Corinth. Clodia, the Lesbia of Catullus. Cleopatra. Theodora. Fredegrunde. Fiammetta's protoype. Tullia d'Aragona. Diane de Poitiers. Barbara Blomberg. Marguerite de Valois. Nell Gwyn. Ninon de Lenclos. Athenaīs, marquise de Montespan. Wilhelmina von Gravenitz. Jeanne Poisson, marquise de Pompadour. Julie de Lespinasse. Pauline Bonaparte. Mademoiselle Georges. Marquise de Paiva. The Red Tsaritza.