The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon : The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of a Legendary Victorian.
Thompson, Brian.
Place Published: New York, NY, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing,
Date Published: 2001.
Description: STATED FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). 343 pages with index plus 8 pages black & white illustrations. The book and dust jacket are FINE. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket reads: "Born to fanatically snobbish parents on Princess Victoria's eighteenth birthday, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. Her father was the first to miscalculate Georgina's maverick nature. After he lost both a run for Parliament and any chance of inheritance, he took his family off to Tuscany, where he could watch and wait I until his daughter became old enough to marry well and so repair his own fortunes. Georgina had other ideas. Her scandalous affair with a married man and her defiant marriage to the less-than-prosperous young hussar officer Harry Weldon were just the first signs that she was no ordinary girl. Harry and Georgina managed to better their position enough to move to Tavistock House, former home of Charles Dickens. There, Georgina took in a menagerie of animals and orphans and acquired a string of lovers, male and female, including the famous French composer Charles Gounod. In a plot that could have been constructed by Dickens himself, Georgina was stung by con artists, betrayed by her parents, and narrowly escaped being committed to a mental institution. When an 1882 Act of Parliament gave her legal right to represent herself in court, Georgina became one of the first Victorian women to sue her persecutors, and she helped to overturn England's infamous Lunacy Laws, which allowed patients to be committed against their will without proper medical examination. A tale of sex and scandal, bravado and bravery, Mrs. Weldon's life story is wild, wicked, and totally irresistible glimpse of Victorian Society."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
ISBN: 0385500904
Book Id: 9850
Price: $15.50
