My lady scandalous

Description:

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.

subjects: Courtesans,  History,  British,  Relations with women,  Biography,  Geschichte 1760-1823,  Gesellschaft,  IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,  Revolution (France : 1789-1799) fast (OCoLC)fst01354514,  18th century,  Revolution, 1789-1799,  France,  Great Britain,  Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, d. 1823,  George III, 1760-1820,  George

People: George IV King of Great Britain (1762-1830),  Grace Dalrymple Elliott (d. 1823)

Places: France,  Great Britain

Times: 18th century,  George III, 1760-1820,  Revolution, 1789-1799