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Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Greatest Courtesan of Her Age
Harriette Wilson's Memoirs: The Greatest Courtesan of Her Age | Harriette Wilson, Leslie Blanch
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19th century London produced a fine flowering of eccentrics and individualists. Chief among them was Harriette Wilson, whose patrons included most of the distinguished men of the day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron. She held court in a box at the opera, attended by statesmen, poets, national heroes, aristocrats, members of the beau monde, and students who hoped to be immortalized by her glance. She wrote these memoirs in middle age, when she had fallen out of favor, and she advised her former lovers that 200of themwould be edited out. The result is an elegant, zestful, unrepentant memoir, which offers intimately detailed portraits of the Regency demimonde."
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My Lord, had I ever wished to deceive you, I have the wit to have done it successfully. 🎤⬇️

I'm loving this book. It's like #JaneAustin, but true, and with sex!

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"But Madame, a name is not so important. I am what you see, Madame, an honest man, of five feet and nine inches."

"Madame is convinced of your five feet, but she is not so sure of your nine inches." ??????