Adventuresses and adventurous ladies
By: by Edmund B. D'Auvergne; with sixteen full-page illustrations.
Publisher: Hutchinson & co., ltd.
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Women -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: A preliminary discourse on adventuresses.; title: The nun ensign (Catalina de Erauso); title: "The German princess" (Mary Carleton); title: The countess duchess (Elizabeth Chudleigh); title: "Elizabeth the Second" [Princess Tarakanova]; title: The fire-hearted demoiselle [Théroigne de Méricourt]; title: "The dear Emma" (Emma, Lady Hamilton); title: "The Spanish dancer" (Lola Montez); title: La grande Thérèse (Thérèse Humbert)