PRIVILEGE AND SCANDAL(ISBN=) 英文原版

“Long before Princess Diana, another member of the Spencer clan
lived a whirlwind life of high fashion, marital indiscretion, and
harsh media attention . . . [a] page-turner.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Janet Gleeson’s book is a delight, shedding new light on the
fascinating Harriet Spencer, sister of the famous Georgiana,
Duchess of Devonshire, mother of Byron’s mistress, Lady Caroline
Lamb, and distant relative of Diana, Princess of Wales. I found
Gleeson’s intimate portrait of Harriet’s complex social, sensual
and family life utterly absorbing.”
—Sarah Bradford, New York Times bestselling author of Diana and
Elizabeth

“Harriet Bessborough, witty, beautiful and a fool for love, was a
star of the Whig aristocracy, born at the epicentre of one of the
most glamorous, the most powerful, the most indulged societies, the
world has ever known. It is astonishing that her biography has
never been written until now, Privilege and Scandal reads like a
novel and I couldn’t put it down.”
—Julian Fellowes, Academy Award-Winning author of Gosford
Park

“The right blend of well-told history and insight into the personal
and domestic…smoothly and elegantly written.”
—Margaret Forster, author of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A
Biography

“A highly readable biography…(an) intelligent and wonderfully
vivid portrait.”
—Daily Mail (UK)

“A truly absorbing window on a unique period of history-and an
entirely unique woman.”
—Glasgow Evening Times

“An enthralling biography … conveyed with style and brio.”
—The Good Book Guide (UK)

From the Hardcover edition.

Janet Gleeson studied English and art history at Nottingham
University. She is the author of The Arcanum, a #1 Sunday Times
bestseller in the U.K., and The Moneymaker, which was published in
the United States as The Millionaire. She lives in Dorset with her
husband, three children, and two dogs.–From the Hardcover
edition.