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title: "Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott"
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# Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott

**Brand:** joanne majorsarah murden
**Price:** 7986 kr
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- **What is this?** Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott by joanne majorsarah murden
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## Customer Reviews

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    A Interesting Woman
  

*by R***I on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2019*

I enjoyed the start of this, and it’s clear that courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott had a rich and complex life, one that crossed the social contours of America, France and England. Whilst I overall liked this book, at times it was rather dry and some pizzazz was needed in the writing, in order to, engage me at least, a little more potently.I really wish the portraits and other images positioned at the end had been integrated throughout the book (as appropriate), as this would have added a nice dimension to the book.Don’t think I’ll re-read this.£1.98 on Amazon 8th September 2019.

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    Rubbish
  

*by R***K on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2019*

Rubbish

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    Great story and meticulous research
  

*by N***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2016*

This is the most complete biography of a figure who is largely forgotten in histories of the late 18th century. Women’s voices, of course, are seldom quoted in conventional histories, and courtesans, although famous in their day, have had even few advocates. Harriette Wilson, who bedded the Duke of Wellington and myriad others, famously wrote her memoirs, offering to leave out names for a consideration (it was a sort of friendly blackmail) but there were not many others.Grace Dalrymple Elliott was not like Harriette or indeed Emma Lyons (later Hamilton), both of whom were from humble backgrounds. She was well born and well connected (her father was an Edinburgh advocate who abandoned his family when Grace was a child). Tall (her nickname as Dally the Tall) and stunningly beautiful, she had natural charm and intelligence.Of course, as a female, Grace's options in life, even as a member of the gentry, were limited. She married young (aged 17) and, worse, married the wrong person (a rich and much older society doctor) and then had an ill-judged affair and was promptly divorced when scarcely legally an adult. As a divorced woman she was a social outcast and there was only really one way to go: liaisons with Lord Cholmondeley, the Prince of Wales and the duc d’Orléans followed. She bore a child who was widely accepted to be the Prince’s daughter.In order to receive a maintenance allowance from the Prince, Grace was forced to live abroad. She had been educated in France and spoke the language well so off to Paris she went, but before long she was struggling to survive amidst the Revolution and subsequent Terror. This is where her story becomes truly remarkable.Grace later wrote her reminiscences of this time, when she smuggled friends and acquaintances out of the city and lived by her wits on few resources. Arrested and imprisoned several times, she used her skills of persuasiveness to convince the authorities of her loyalty. There are some hairy moments, including the time her house is thoroughly searched by men with bayonets who stuck them in all the mattresses. Grace remained in her bed, feigning modesty, all the while protecting a fugitive hiding behind her.The authors Joanne Major and Sarah Murden have uncovered new sources for Grace’s life as well as unravelled her hugely complicated family tree. They are genealogists and it shows in their meticulous detective work amongst the vital documents. For instance, they have tracked who was present at baptisms and marriages, using this information to document who was in touch with whom in a vast network of friends and family. The detail is astonishing.Major and Murden, who write a much-loved blog All Things Georgian, have given themselves a wide remit, including the stories of various members of Grace’s family, amongst them her brother Henry Hew Dalrymple, a republican sympathiser and supporter of abolition who was a driving force behind a little-known inept plan to colonise Bolama (now in Guinea-Bissau).The tone of the writing is friendly and informal, pulling the reader along and pointing up the humanity of the subjects. The authors are to be applauded for their achievement.

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