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The Extraordinary Life of a Georgian Courtesan - Grace Dalrymple Elliott, her family, and friends (Paperback)
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The Extraordinary Life of a Georgian Courtesan - Grace Dalrymple Elliott, her family, and friends (Paperback)
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Loot Price R423
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Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner in France during the
French Revolution and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales
child, notorious eighteenth-century courtesan Grace Dalrymple
Elliott lived an amazing life in eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century London and Paris. Strikingly tall and beautiful,
later lampooned as Dally the Tall in Parisian gossip columns, she
left her Scottish roots and convent education behind, to re-invent
herself in a marriage -la-mode, but before she was even legally an
adult she was cast off and forced to survive on just her beauty and
wits. The authors of this engaging and, at times, scandalous book
intersperse the story of Graces tumultuous life with anecdotes of
her fascinating family, from those who knew Thomas Jefferson and
George Washington, and who helped to abolish slavery, to those who
were, like Grace, mistresses of great men. Whilst this book is the
most definitive biography of Grace Dalrymple Elliott ever written,
it is much more than that; it is Graces family history that traces
her ancestors from their origin in the Scottish borders, to their
move south to London. It follows them to France, America, India,
Africa and elsewhere, offering a broad insight into the social
history of the Georgian era, comprising the ups and downs, the
highs and lows of life at that time. This is the remarkable and
detailed story of Grace set, for the first time, in the context of
her wider family and told more completely than ever before.
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