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...Game of Hearts: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs, edited by Lesley Blanch. A saucy, intimate peek at Regency London's beaux and belles from the boudoir of the most celebrated courtesan of the day (TIME, June...
...chastity against a Roman centurion. When the judges questioned her qualifications and refused to let her compete, the young mother received bales of encouraging letters and the judges were roundly blasted. The sex education given in public schools would make even the most modern, broad-minded American parent blanch. At a party in Stockholm, I met Mrs. Elise Ottesen-Jensen, the 17th of 18 children of a Norwegian family, a vigorous, outspoken woman who looks years younger than she is (69). She travels all over Sweden by car, train and even on skis to run clinics, advises branch offices...
...Wilder Shores of Love, by Lesley Blanch. The fascinating and authentic tales of four women who loved well, possibly wisely, and certainly widely, from British authors and German princes to Turkish sultans (TIME, Sept...
...plotting bloodthirstily against the Sultan's enemies. Thanks to Aimée, her son, Mahmoud II ("The Reformer"), broke the power of the Janissaries and (says a Turkish poet) "opened the gate of the Orient to a new light." "We see [through Aimée]," concludes Author Blanch, "that even in the seraglio, as a slave, she had considerably more freedom to be essentially a woman than many women now enmeshed in the complex mechanism of our economic civilization...
...bred." Russian to the core, Isabelle was prone to cries and lamentations which she often expressed in admirable prose. She explained: "Why do I prefer nomads to villagers, beggars to rich people? Aie yie yie! for me, unhappiness is a sort of spice ... I love the knout!" To Author Blanch, Isabelle Eberhardt represents the "blessed annihilation of self," the woman "free of all the little deadly fetters of everyday life...