The Lily Brand
When she releases an imprisoned Englishman purchased by her stepmother to be a pleasure slave, a young French beauty has little idea that they will meet again in the crush of Regency England. Original.
When she releases an imprisoned Englishman purchased by her stepmother to be a pleasure slave, a young French beauty has little idea that they will meet again in the crush of Regency England. Original.
The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, the world's first world war
British salons, with guests such as Byron, Moore, and Thackeray, were veritable hothouses of political and cultural agitation. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - Schmid paints a vivid picture of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s.
The adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born aristocrat who was years ahead of her time as a writer, a socialite, a salon host, and a participant in the Cuban slavery debate. Raised in Cuba and shipped off to live with her socialite mother in Spain at the age of 13, Mercedes triumphed over the political chaos that blanketed Europe in the Napoleonic days, by charming aristocrats from all sides with her exotic beauty and singing voice. She ma...