Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and Morals

Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and Morals

by Laura Beatty (Author)

Synopsis

A gripping account of her rakish progress from a penniless, beautiful nobody to a professional beauty bankrupted by her unpaid role as the Prince of Wales' mistress...Laura Beatty's book is as robustly improving as it is engrossing. - Daily Telegraph

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Apr 2000

ISBN 10: 0099287854
ISBN 13: 9780099287858

Media Reviews
The most original and penetrating book on Mrs. Langtry that has been written... fresh and revealing. - Literary Review Beatty writes with wit and gusto--The tone of her book - racy, sharp-witted and elegantly aphoristic - is nicely appropriate to its subject matter. - Sunday Times
Author Bio
Laura Beatty worked in the art world in London and New York. This is her first book.