Author: GRISTWOOD, SARAH.
Title: Perdita. Royal mistress, Writer, Romantic.
Description: London: Bantam Press, 2005. 0593052080. 1st edition. "Mary Robinson began her career as an actress, went on to become a royal mistress, and ended it just two decades later as a Romantic poet and early feminist thinker of note. Lauded in portraits by Reynolds and Gainsborough, she was lampooned in print and cartoon. Pp.454, 16 pages of colour illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Black boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Keywords: Sarah Gristwood Perdita Mary Robinson Royal Mistress Courtesan Writer Romantic Feminist Biography Prince Wales Georgian England 52656 General Biography


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