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A Scandalous Life : The Biography of Jane Digby

A Scandalous Life : The Biography of Jane Digby

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Mary S. Lovell
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • Publication date: 2011
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Weight: 0.28 kg ISBN: 9781857024692 Note that the actual book cover may differ from the picture

The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludvig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to the Orient.

In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab who was twenty years her junior. Bestselling biographer Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digby's diaries not only a sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman, but a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.