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The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
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Author
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Hallie Rubenhold.
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Publisher
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St. Martin's
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.4
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ISBN
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9780312359942
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Pages/Publication Date
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308/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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20624
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Description
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She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. The marriage of Lady Seymour Dorothy Fleming and Sir Richard Worsley had the makings of a fairy tale—but ended as one of the most scandalous and highly publicized divorces in history. Impeccably researched and written with great flair, this lively and moving true history presents a rarely seen picture of aristocratic life in the Georgian era. "Because the market is saturated with 18th-century bodice biographies, most indistinguishable from the next, [this one] should come with a warning: nothing else in the genre is close to being this good. As a historian and a storyteller, Hallie Rubenhold is in a league of her own. She keeps you glued to the very last page when, exhausted, exasperated, and elated, you can at last put the book down and get yourself some sleep."—Literary Review (UK)
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