Author: Thompson, Brian,
Title: The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon.
Description: NY, Doubleday, (2001). 1st US ed 1ptg. VG in VG DJ. Born to fanatically snobbish parents, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. Her scandalous. affair with a married man & her defiant marriage to an unprosperous hussar officer were the first signs she was no ordinary girl. Georgina took in a menagerie of animals & orphans & had a string of lovers, male & female. When her parents tried to commit her to a mental institution, she won the legal right to represent herself & sued her persecutors & helped to overturn England's lunacy laws which allowed patients to be committed against their will without proper medical examination.

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