Name: A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby (in English)
Price: 13.96 USD
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Author: Mary S. Lovell
ISBN: 9781857024692

portada A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby (in English)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Fourth Estate

Author

Mary S. Lovell

Synopsis "A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby (in English)"

The biography of Jane Digby, an ‘enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart – and hormones – ruled her head.’ Harpers and QueenA celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludvig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to the Orient. In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab who was twenty years her junior.Bestselling biographer Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digby’s diaries not only a sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman, but a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.