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Barbara White - Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray - 9780752468693 - V9780752468693
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Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray

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Description for Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 16 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 606.

Fanny Murray was an incomparable Georgian beauty and the most desired courtesan of the 1750s. The daughter of an impoverished musician from Bath, she took London society by storm, not only as the most prized ‘purchaseable beauty’ of her day, but also as a fashion icon and muse to poets, writers and artists. She counted princes, aristocrats and politicians among her friends and lovers, but relished the company of rogues, fraudsters and ne’er-do-wells. Barbara White presents evidence to suggest that Fanny Murray participated spiritedly in the sexual antics of the notorious ‘Monks of Medmenham’, the most infamous of the Hell-fire ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752468693
SKU
V9780752468693
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