The Extraordinary Life of a Georgian Courtesan: Grace Dalrymple Elliott, her family, and friends

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Sarah Murden Joanne Major

The Extraordinary Life of a Georgian Courtesan

Grace Dalrymple Elliott, her family, and friends

Sarah Murden, Joanne Major

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Pen and Sword
01 December 2020

Biography: historical, political & military; History; European history

Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner in France during the French Revolution and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales' child, notorious eighteenth-century courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott lived an amazing life in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London and Paris. Strikingly tall and beautiful, later lampooned as 'Dally the Tall' in newspaper gossip columns, she left her Scottish roots and convent education behind, to re-invent herself in a 'marriage a-la-mode', but before she was even legally an adult she was cast off and forced to survive on just her beauty and wits. The authors of this engaging and, at times, scandalous book intersperse the story of Grace's tumultuous life with anecdotes of her fascinating family, from those who knew Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and who helped to abolish slavery, to those who were, like Grace, mistresses of great men. Whilst this book is the most definitive biography of Grace Dalrymple Elliott ever written, it is much more than that; it is Grace's family history that traces her ancestors from their origin in the Scottish borders, to their move south to London. It follows them to France, America, India, Africa and elsewhere, offering a broad insight into the social history of the Georgian era, comprising the ups and downs, the highs and lows of life at that time. This is the remarkable and detailed story of Grace set, for the first time, in the context of her wider family and told more completely than ever before. AUTHORS: Joanne Major and Sarah Murden are Lincolnshire based 'super sleuthing' historians, who enjoy nothing more than bringing the Georgian era to life through their books and blog, All Things Georgian. Their lives were changed forever when they (metaphorically) bumped into an eighteenth-century courtesan.

By: Sarah Murden, Joanne Major
Imprint: Pen and Sword
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781526796417
ISBN 10: 1526796414
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Sarah Murden and Joanne Major are joint authors of this compelling biography, brought together through their shared passion for history and genealogy, having met online via a genealogy forum. Living many hundreds of miles apart from each other, lengthy telephone conversations to discuss long dead folk became very much the norm to them, and it was during one of these telephone conversations that they stumbled, accidentally and unintentionally, into the path of this eighteenth-century courtesan. For more information visit www.georgianera.wordpress.com.