King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 8th.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: Vintage.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers showing a portrait of Henrietta Howard. Lilac and white titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to edges and corners, no reading creases to spine or to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations or marks to text. Some very slight marks to prelims. Minimal paper colouration throughout. VG * Illustrations: 2 x 8pp blocks of b/w photos. * Pages: 285 pp. text. xxxix pp. epilogue, notes, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- The life and times of Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, who was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. She was also, as Tracy Borman's wonderfully readable biography reveals, a dedicated patron of the arts; a lively and talented intellectual in her own right; a victim of adultery; a passionate advocate for the rights of women long before the dawn of feminism. Above all she was a woman of reason in an Age of Reason. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyond the confines of the court, and can still be felt today.* This is a NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st./8th. with minor age and wear reducing it to VG.*