My lady scandalous
Subtitle: the amazing life and outrageous times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, royal courtesan
By: by Jo Manning.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, d. 1823; George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 -- Relations with women; British -- France -- History -- 18th century; Courtesans -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820 -- Biography; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Biography
Genres: Relations with women.; Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-404) and index.