An edition of Monkey among crocodiles (2001)

The disastrous Mrs. Weldon

the life, loves, and lawsuits of a legendary Victorian

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An edition of Monkey among crocodiles (2001)

The disastrous Mrs. Weldon

the life, loves, and lawsuits of a legendary Victorian

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"Born to fanatically snobbish parents on Princess Victoria's eighteenth birthday, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. Her father was the first to miscalculate Georgina's maverick nature. After he lost both a run for Parliament and any chance of inheritance, he took his family off to Tuscany, where he could watch and wait until his daughter became old enough to marry well and so repair his own fortunes.".

"Georgina had other ideas. Her scandalous affair with a married man and her defiant marriage to the less-than-prosperous young hussar officer Harry Weldon were just the first signs that she was no ordinary girl.".

"Harry and Georgina managed to better their position enough to move to Tavistock House, former home of Charles Dickens. There, Georgina took in a menagerie of animals and orphans and acquired a string of lovers, male and female, including the famous French composer Charles Gounod. In a plot that could have been constructed by Dickens himself, Georgina was stung by con artists, betrayed by her parents, and narrowly escaped being committed to a mental institution.".

"When an 1882 Act of Parliament gave her the legal right to represent herself in court, Georgina became one of the first Victorian women to sue her persecutors, and she helped to overturn England's infamous Lunacy Laws, which allowed patients to be committed against their will without proper medical examination."--BOOK JACKET.

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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
343

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-332) and index.
Originally published as: A monkey among crocodiles. 2000.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
941.08/092, B
Library of Congress
CT788.W46 T48 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 343 p. :
Number of pages
343

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Open Library
OL6783462M
Internet Archive
disastrousmrswel0000thom
ISBN 10
0385500904
LCCN
00034032
OCLC/WorldCat
44313267
Library Thing
371146
Goodreads
1292688

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