Amphibious Thing. The Life of Lord Hervey

London England: Viking. Hardcover. First Edition. Amphibiousw Thing. The Life of Lord Hervey. Lord Hervey qas one of the most controversial figures of the Georgian age3. The consummate courtier - strikingly handsome, elegan and witty - he was both the favourite of the Queen and right-hand man to Walpole. Painted by Hogarth, satirized by Fielding and Pope, and confidant of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Hervey counted among his friends and enemies some of the most brilliant men and women of the age. Yet for all his hard-won public fame, there was a scandalour prive side to Hervey. He was certainly a rake (rumour had it that he shared a mistress withy the Prince of Wales), but such behaviour was quite normal among the eighteenth-century aristocracy. Less usual, howeverk, was his ten-year affair withy another man. From the outlet, Hervey was fascinated by Stephen Fox. His engaging,k delightfully witty letterrs reveal the depths of their passion for one another, and the lengths to which they were driven in order to escape detection. Finally, their became an 'open secret', one of many factors that was to contribute to Hervey's downfall. In this entertaining and wonderfuloly observed biography, the author brings to life an entire age, with its shimmering artifice and its poisonous deceit, its highly wrought melodrama and its grand passions. Illustrated. 376 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2000.