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Biographical sketch of the British traveler and adventurer, Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 - 23 June 1839).
The physician of an unconventional, adventurous aristocrat recounts their time together and publishes her letters in this 1845 three-volume work.
Excerpt from Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope: A New Light on Her Life and Love Affairs In his six volumes of "Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope" and "Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope" Dr. Meryon, her physician, confined himself chiefly to material which he gathered from her Ladyship's conversation and such portions of her correspondence as came into his hands. More than half a century after the publication of these works the late Duchess of Cleveland's loyal and detailed life of her aunt was privately printed, in 1897. Besides referring to Dr. Meryon's MSS., the Duchess had access to family papers he had never seen; but even then there are many incidents of Lady Hester's story of which the Duchess wa...