Memoirs of Emma Lady Hamilton —— With Anecdotes of Her Friends and Contemporaries

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ISBN: 9781331521235 出版年：2016 页码：335 W H Long Forgotten Books

Who combined with the acknowledged charms of her person mental powers of no common range and ver satility, is the principal reason for the republication of her much-maligned Memoirs, with corrections and annotations. The story of her wonderfully chequered career from her cradle to her grave, and her connection with the greatest naval commander the world has ever seen, is as attractive and thrilling as a romance, and will serve for all time to point a moral, or adorn a tale. The first edition of the Memoirs of Lady Hamilton, by an anonymous author, was published by H. Colburn in 1815, and a second edition, corrected and enlarged, a few weeks later in the same year. The present edition is a reprint of the second, with the exception that a long introduction, written in the most prosy style of.