EMMA LIFE OF LDY HMLTN - Hardcover
This powerful biography of the colourful and controversial Lady Hamilton is the first to draw on the hitherto unpublished archives of the Bourbon rulers of Naples, where Emma spent the most important years of her life. The court papers of King Ferdinand and Maria Carolina his Queen both complement and add several devastating new perspectives to the conventional picture derived from the well-minded collections of source material on which previous biographers have relied. Here is a very different Emma from the blowsy adventuress who reputedly slept her way from obscurity to become an Ambassador's wife and the mistress of Nelson- and the mother of at least one of his children. She emerges here as a strong and noble character, and the mass of new material, most skilfully assimilated into a riveting narrative, settles once and for all many of the unanswered questions that have eluded earlier writers, from her parentage to her final tragic death in Calais. The dramatic Naples period death in Calais. The dramatic Naples period in particular is most vividly recreated. Colin Simpson writes about this remarkable and misunderstood woman with deep knowledge and compassion.
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0370309847
- ISBN 13 9780370309842
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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