Dimensions
128 x 197 x 26mm
A modern look at a celebrated historical beauty, whose rags to riches and back again story is full of scandal and intrigue.
Emma Hamilton was a legendary beauty who ranks with Helen of Troy and Nell Gwynne in the public imagination. This book traces Emma's life from her birth as the daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, through her glittering success in Neapolitan society as the wife of Sir William Hamilton, and her famous romance with Lord Nelson, to her death as a pauper in Calais.
Flora Fraser captures the charm and vivacity of this unusual woman and her use of contemporary sources and anecdotes brings the period vividly to life.
