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Life in the Georgian Court by Catherine Curzon

7 January 2017Naomi Clifford

A lively jaunt through the royal courts of Europe.

An Infamous Mistress by Joanne Major and Sarah Murden

7 January 2017Naomi Clifford

A fascinating examination of the life of well connected courtesan who reputedly bore the Prince Regent’s child.

A Right Royal Scandal: Two Marriages that Changed History by Joanne Major and Sarah Murden

7 January 2017Naomi Clifford

One family. Two astonishing scandals.

3 books on the Georgian era I loved in 2015

5 January 2016Naomi Clifford

Emma Hamilton, Sex and Dr Polidori

Sex in Georgian England: Attitudes and Prejudices from the 1720s to the 1820s by A. D. Harvey

5 January 2016Naomi Clifford

Duckworth, 1994 I snapped up this book on a second-hand stall outside the BFI on the South Bank. It’s an odd one. The opening chapter “Women’s Bodies – and How Men Looked at Them” is a detailed discussion of what Georgians preferred in terms of shape and type of breast (think of those high, pillowy, […]

England’s Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams

5 January 2016Naomi Clifford

Arrow, 2007 What a girl! Readable, imaginative account of a widely misunderstood woman. We all know someone like Emma – naive, exuberant, extravert, generous and sensual, outwardly without a care in the world. Often, as with Emma, what is not always appreciated is their apparently contradictory nature: sensitive, caring, intelligent and vulnerable. Emma, ridiculed and […]

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