Leaves from the Note-Books of Lady Dorothy Nevill (Illustrated Edition)
Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill (1826-1913) was an English writer, hostess, horticulturist and plant collector. The daughter of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, she received no formal education but was tutored by a governess in French, Italian, Greek and Latin. In 1846 she was embroiled in a scandal when caught in a summerhouse with notorious rake, George Smythe MP, heir to a peerage. Newspaper gossip alleged that he got her pregnant and then refused to marry her, and she was hastily married off to an elderly cousin, Reginald Henry Nevill, 20 years her senior. The couple had six children, four of whom survived beyond childhood. Following her ma…
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Weitere Autoren: Nevill, Ralph (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4068-9854-5
- EAN: 9781406898545
- Produktnummer: 33228686
- Verlag: Echo Lib
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 196 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 293 g
- Auflage: Reprint of an E
- Gewicht: 293
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