The Scandalous Lady W: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

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It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England… She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicised divorces in history.For over two hundred years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold, in her impeccably researched book, throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one coloured by passion, adventure and the defiance of social convention. The Worsley’s story, their struggles and outrageous lifestyle, promises to shock even the modern reader.

Additional information

Weight 0.224 kg
Dimensions 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

320

Publisher

Year Published

2015-7-2

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1784701939

About The Author

Hallie Rubenhold is the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling and Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of The Five, the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. A renowned social historian whose expertise lies in revealing stories of previously unknown women and episodes in history, she is the author of The Covent Garden Ladies which was the inspiration behind BBC TV's 'Harlots'. Her biographical work, Lady Worsley's Whim, was dramatized by the BBC as 'The Scandalous Lady W'. Her most recent work of non-fiction, Story of a Murder, the wives, the mistress and Dr Crippen, will be published in March 2025. She has also written two acclaimed novels Mistress of My Fate and The French Lesson which give voice to the women written out by eighteenth-century literature. She lives in London with her husband. Meet her @HallieRubenhold

Review Quote

A fabulous story and Rubenhold tells it beautifully

Other text

Hallie Rubenhold is in a league of her own. She keeps you glued to the very last page when, exhausted, exasperated and elated, you can at last put the book down and get yourself some sleep…. Nothing else in the genre is close to being this good