Word: ladyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PATRIOTIC LADY-Marjorie Bowen-Appleton-Century ($3).
Sir William was Minister to the Court of Naples, and in that garish society Emma sparkled. Though she was years younger than her elderly lover, she transferred her fidelity to him without much trouble. In Naples they could live openly together without causing scandal. When they went home to London...
To the near-sighted eyes of posterity, historical figures are apt to loom larger and more beautiful than they do under the historian's microscope. To every true-blue Briton, Horatio Nelson was one of England's greatest heroes, and his beauteous Lady Hamilton the fitting Venus to...
Emma, Lady Hamilton did not start as a lady, and according to Biographer Bowen, achieved ladyhood only technically. Her real name was Amy Lyon; her father was a blacksmith. Her profession, which she adopted in her teens, was "pleasing the gentlemen." Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh kicked her out because she was...
Rumors of their relationship preceded them. When they stopped in Dresden, an Englishwoman there wrote: "Lord Nelson thinks of nothing but Lady Hamilton, who is totally occupied by the same object. She is bold, forward, coarse, assuming and vain. Her figure is colossal, but, excepting her feet, which are hideous...