![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This authoritative and engaging book presents a fascinating portrait of a woman who was variously darling of the London stage, a poet whose work was admired by Coleridge and a mistress to the most powerful men in England, and yet whose fortunes were nevertheless precarious, always on the brink of being squandered through recklessness, excess and passion. She later used his copious love letters for blackmail. from the University of Liverpool, where she is a research fellow in English literature. On her release, Mary quickly became one of the most popular actresses of the day, famously playing Perdita in The Winter’s Tale for a rapt audience that included the Prince of Wales, who fell madly in love with her. His dissipated lifestyle landed the couple and their baby in debtors' prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry and met lifelong friend Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire. ![]() After being raised by a middle-class father, Mary was married, at age fourteen, to Thomas Robinson. One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson's life was marked by reversals of fortune. From the privileged yet unequal lives of Dido and her cousin Elizabeth, to the horrific treatment of African slaves, Paula Byrne - the bestselling author of. Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late-eighteenth-century England. ![]()
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