Hot Off the Presses: February 2007
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- by Amanda Elyot
- ISBN: 0451220544, NAL, February 2007
Emma Hamilton is renowned as the real-life heroine of the greatest love story in British history: yet her passionate and enduring romance with Lord Horatio Nelson remains the stuff of legend.
She had the accent-and mouth-of a bawdy Welsh maid, but Emma's breathtaking beauty captivated some of the most influential and powerful men in Europe. At the end of the 18th Century, she was the most talked about woman in the world: an artful performer, an ambassador without portfolio, and the confidante of a queen. Once she met Nelson, Emma's fascinating life grew even more tumultuous, as she and the sea hero braved the censure of king and peers, and the sneers of society, all in the name of true love.