Lesley Blanch HARRIETTE WILSON'S MEMOIRS Folio Society
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Lesley Blanch HARRIETTE WILSON'S MEMOIRS Folio Society
First edition, first print hardback in slipcase of HARRIETTE WILSON'S MEMOIRS, selected and edited with an introduction by Lesley Blanch and published by The Folio Society Ltd, London, in 1964.The book is in very good condition (Clean purple silk covers with decorative gilt titles on spine which is in its original slipcase) with minor fading on the spine. The lilac and white slipcase is in good condition with slight rubbing to the edges in parts. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
A scholarly romantic, Lesley Blanch has influenced and inspired generations of writers, readers and critics. Her first book, The Wilder Shores Of Love, pioneered a new kind of group biography focusing on women escaping the boredom of convention, and has remained in print in English since original publication in 1954.
"Today, in America, the courtesan may be said to have been replaced by the psychoanalyst. In place of the alcove there is the analyst's office. But basically the functions of both courtesan and analyst have the same principle. Both offer escape, relaxation and individual attention; both are expensive. And the couch is still there.
The reigning courtesan of Regency London, Harriette Wilson's patrons included many of the distinguished men of her day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron. Hard-pressed for money in middle age, her looks and youth gone, all she had left to sell were her memories. Deliberately written with an eye to blackmail, she sold her memoirs after offering to edit out any lovers who paid her the sum of ?200. "Publish and be damned!" cried the Duke of Wellington. She did and she was."
378 pages. Illustrated with numerous black & white gravures throughout.
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