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Perdita

Name: Perdita
Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
SKU: 04002337
Price: 7299 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Paula Byrne
ISBN: 9780007164592

Paula Byrne

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04002337

Publishers Harper Collins Publishers, January 2005

Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late 18th-century England. O... Full description

Libristo code: 04002337

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Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late 18th-century England. One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson's life was marked by reversals of fortune. After being raised by a middle-class father, Mary was married, at age fourteen, to Thomas Robinson. His dissipated lifestyle landed the couple and their baby in debtors' prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry and met lifelong friend Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire. On her release, Mary quickly became one of the most popular actresses of the day, famously playing Perdita in 'The Winter's Tale' for a rapt audience that included the Prince of Wales, who fell madly in love with her. She later used his copious love letters for blackmail. This authoritative and engaging book presents a fascinating portrait of a woman who was variously darling of the London stage, a poet whose work was admired by Coleridge and a mistress to the most powerful men in England, and yet whose fortunes were nevertheless precarious, always on the brink of being squandered through recklessness, excess and passion.