Other women
Subtitle: the history of the mistress
By: Fiona McDonald
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780752465388
Subjects: Mistresses; History; Adultery
Description: 'Other Women' tells the stories of those women who belonged to a separate part of society: in some ways invisible and socially unacceptable, but in others in positions of influence and power, comfort and even luxury. They range from the common-law marriage of Edith Swan-Neck to King Harold II, who was also legally wedded to Edith of Mercia, to the liaison between Edward VII and Alice Keppel, great-grandmother of the Duchess of Cornwall. It includes the passionate loves of great artists: Rodin, Picasso, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo and Graham Greene, as well as many more men of arts and letters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186) and index.