Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton
Mar 2012 · A&C Black
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'Bewitchingly readable, authoritative' The Times
'At last, in Flora Fraser, Lady Hamilton has a biographer able to capture both the woman and her times' Amanda Foreman
Born in the eighteenth century, Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time.
Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable – until she began her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma follows Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and her life as an artist's assistant, through glittering successes as the wife of Sir William Hamilton in Naples, and that notorious romance with Nelson, to her painful descent from the heights of fame to an early death in Calais.
Flora Fraser captures the energy, purpose and sexuality that drove this extraordinary woman through her tumultuous life.
'At last, in Flora Fraser, Lady Hamilton has a biographer able to capture both the woman and her times' Amanda Foreman
Born in the eighteenth century, Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time.
Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable – until she began her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma follows Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and her life as an artist's assistant, through glittering successes as the wife of Sir William Hamilton in Naples, and that notorious romance with Nelson, to her painful descent from the heights of fame to an early death in Calais.
Flora Fraser captures the energy, purpose and sexuality that drove this extraordinary woman through her tumultuous life.
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Graham Morphett
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November 20, 2013
More interesting than I first expected, this was a remarkable life, even in the bad times. In the good times, Emma Hamilton was extrodinary.
About the author
Flora Fraser is the author of Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma Hamilton, The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline, Princesses: The Daughters of George III, Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte and George & Martha Washington: A Revolutionary Marriage, which won the 2016 George Washington Prize. Flora was named after the Scottish heroine Flora Macdonald, whose story she tells in Pretty Young Rebel. Flora Fraser lives in London.
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