An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott

by Joanne Major and Sarah Murden

Book Overview

Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner during the French Revolution and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales' child, notorious courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott lived an amazing life in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London and Paris.

Strikingly tall and beautiful, later lampooned as 'Dally the Tall' in newspaper gossip columns, Grace left her Scottish roots and convent education behind, to re-invent herself in a 'marriage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473844835
• ISBN13: 9781473844834
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.