King"s Mistress, Queen"s Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard
Цена 19.73 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780099549178
Брэнд
Random House Hardbacks
Автор
Tracy Borman
Издатель
Vintage
Страниц
336
Год выпуска
2010
Форма выпуска
130x200
Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. She was also, as Tracy Borman"s wonderfully readable biography reveals, a dedicated patron of the arts; a lively and talented intellectual in her own right; a victim of adultery; a passionate advocate for the rights of women long before the dawn of feminism. Above all she was a woman of reason in an Age of Reason. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyond the confines of the court, and can still be felt today.