My lady scandalous : the amazing life and outrageous times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, royal courtesan / by Jo Manning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Jo, 1940-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, -1823.

Elliott, Grace Dalrymple.

George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.

Courtesans.

British.

History.

Relations with women.

Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820--Biography.

Great Britain.

George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Relations with women.

George.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Biography.

France.

British--France--History--18th century.

Courtesans--Great Britain--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 414 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2005]

Summary:

This richly raucous history traverses the notoriously licentious British Regency era in the company of its most celebrated courtesan. Following a simple Edinburgh girlhood, Grace Dalrymple came of age in the sin city of London. As an impressionable bride of seventeen who married a man more than twice her age, Grace's remarkable beauty soon attracted the attentions of other men, and a disastrous liaison provoked her philandering husband to pursue a divorce. She became mistress of the most infamous peer in England, Lord Cholmondeley, who commissioned her Gainsborough portrait the same year she gave birth to a daughter (who may have been the child of the Prince of Wales). She was soon to find a new protector in France's richest man, Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, but this turned perilous when Orleans fell to the guillotine, just as Grace narrowly escaped with her life. --From publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction

"Dally the tall"

The proud scottish Dalrymples

Grace Dalrymple's unhappy marriage to the "cornuted" doctor, John Eliot

The love rat

The divorce

Bed-hopping and social status

George James Cholmondeley

The earl's mistress and unsuitable marriage

Mrs. Eliott's excellent adventures, Volume I : Grace goes to Paris and bags her first prince

Mrs. Eliott's excellent adventures, Volume II : Grace bags her second prince, George, Prince of Wales

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" : France, 1784-1794

It was a very bad year. . .

Return of the native

The trail goes cold. . .

"De Langueur"

"Publish and be damned!". . . Postscript : Grace Elliott's final resting place in Paris. . .

Appendix : L'Amglaise et le Duc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-404) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

074326262X

9780743262620

OCLC:

60419653

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