![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Bristol and Bath have each sent forth their sons and daughters of genius. Read an Excerpt Chapter 1 during a tempestuous night The very finest powers of intellect, and the proudest specimens of mental labour, have frequently appeared in the more contracted circles of provincial society. One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson’s life was marked by reversals of fortune. The identity of the aristocratic family that inspired Brideshead Revisited has long been known to Waugh biographers: Byrnes (Perdita: The Literary. Perdita is her first book to be published in the U.S. Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late 18th-century England. ![]()
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