Buy this book on-line WILSON**, FRANCES: : The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman who Blackmailed the King.**LONDON.FABER & FABER,2003. ISBN 0571205046.
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Harriette Wilson was the most desired and the most dangerous woman in Regency London.Born in 1786,by the time she was fifteen Harriette was well on to her way to becoming England's most sought after courtesan.She counted amongst her conquests the Prince of Wales,at least three Prime Ministers and the Lord Chancellor.There was hardly a young dandy in Mayfair who had not been involved with Harriette,who entranced men with her wit as much as her beauty.A fascinated Walter Scott called her a 'smart saucy girl' with 'the manners of a wild schoolboy'.But when the Duke of Argyll and other rich former lovers refused to pay her an annuity, Harriette decided to avenge herself on the whole pack.With her scandalous Memoirs - a book she was famously told,by the Duke of Wellington,to 'publish and be damned' - she took sensational revenge on London society.
In a biography of tremendous style and energy,Frances Wilson makes use of previously unseen letters,law reports and confidential Government correspondence to reveal for the first time the spectacular true story of the sexual celebrity who blackmailed the British aristocracy and even held the King to ransom.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour,pictorial wrap-around artwork painting,illustrated dw/dj [Reclining Nude (Miss O'Murphy) by Francois Boucher (1703- 70)]; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to top edges - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,no corner bumped.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Bright,clean, dark-blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate,plain green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xivpp [paginated]+2-359pp [paginated],includes half-title,recto b/w facsimile map detail: Mayfair,'London and Wesyminster,1797, frntis,title page,contents+illustrations lists,26 chapters,a bibliography,notes and an index,16pp in two separate 8pp sections,b/w+colour contemporary illustrated plates between pp112/13 and pp240/41 respectively and 26 b/w chapter head-pieces,and a single b/w tail-piece to rear,8pp blanks to rear also.
Harriette Wilson was the most desired and the most dangerous woman in Regency London.Born in 1786,by the time she was fifteen Harriette was well on to her way to becoming England's most sought after courtesan.She counted amongst her conquests the Prince of Wales,at least three Prime Ministers and the Lord Chancellor.There was hardly a young dandy in Mayfair who had not been involved with Harriette,who entranced men with her wit as much as her beauty.A fascinated Walter Scott called her a 'smart saucy girl' with 'the manners of a wild schoolboy'.But when the Duke of Argyll and other rich former lovers refused to pay her an annuity, Harriette decided to avenge herself on the whole pack.With her scandalous Memoirs - a book she was famously told,by the Duke of Wellington,to 'publish and be damned' - she took sensational revenge on London society.
In a biography of tremendous style and energy,Frances Wilson makes use of previously unseen letters,law reports and confidential Government correspondence to reveal for the first time the spectacular true story of the sexual celebrity who blackmailed the British aristocracy and even held the King to ransom.
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