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A Scandalous Life - The Biography of Jane Digby (Paperback, Reissue) Loot Price: R279
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A Scandalous Life - The Biography of Jane Digby (Paperback, Reissue)

Mary S. Lovell

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Jane Digby was an astonishing woman. An aristocrat, married in 1824 as a teenager to Lord Ellenborough (twice her age), she became pregnant by her handsome cousin George Anson, and was divorced for an affair with the Austrian Prince Schwarzenberg. Deserted by him, she became King Ludwig I's mistress while married to Baron Carl Venningen - until eloping with the Greek Count Spiridon Theotoky (after the Count had been almost killed in a duel with her husband). Spirodon's infidelities and the death of her infant son drove Jane to the Orient, where she became the mistress of the Albanian General Hadji-Petros and reigned over his brigand army from a number of mountain caves. Finding him yet another lover unfaithful, 50-year-old Jane fled to Syria, where she met and married Sheikh Medjurel el Mezbraba, a Bedouin nobleman of 30, and lived happily with him for the rest of her life in the goat hair tents of Arabia and a magnificent Damascan palace. Lovell works well with the most wonderful material: Jane's diaries and letters are intimate, lively and comprehensive. Few romantic novels could convincingly tell so astonishing a story. (Kirkus UK)
A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludvig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to the Orient. In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab who was twenty years her junior.

Bestselling biographer Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digby?s diaries not only a sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman, but a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.

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Imprint: 4th Estate
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 1996
First published: June 2003
Authors: Mary S. Lovell
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 365
Edition: Reissue
ISBN-13: 978-1-85702-469-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
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LSN: 1-85702-469-9
Barcode: 9781857024692

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