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Seymour: A Woman of Spirit and Friends

[info]raquelweissek
April 25th, 22:06

Lady Worsley 's Impulse
2008 by Hallie Rubenhold is an splendidly researched and written record of a real-life Georgian sex scandle. To hold Fornication with ' is an Eighteenth century euphemism for fornication and the 1782 Crim Con test affecting George Bisset, his lover Lady Seymour Worsley and her hubby Sir Richard Worsley, Seventh Bart Worsleyof Appuldercombe is an exquisit illustration of exactly why any lengths would be attended to avoid public dirt in Georgian Britain.

Lady Worsley herself wooed dirt after her seperation from her hubby and I 'm so glad she maked, for otherwise we would n't hold the modern-day intelligence and chin-wag studies of Seymour 's activities, whether they happed in the judicatures or behind doors that look to hold ne'er been shutted, so skilfully demoed by Hallie Rubenhold.

Francis Wilson, writer of The Paramour 's Retaliation: The Life of Harriette Wilson, the Woman WHO Blackmailed the Rex
2003, gives an enthusiastic reappraisal and superb precis in
Literary Review



`` Because the marketplace is saturated with eighteenth-century bodice lives, most identical from the following, Lady Worsley 's Caprice should go with a warning: null else in the genre is approximately being this good. As a historiographer and a teller, Hallie Rubenhold is in a conference of her ain. ''