![]() ![]() ![]() By the age of twenty-six, she leaves behind the precarious life of a courtesan to become Lady Hamilton, wife of Sir William Hamilton–the aging, besotted, and probably impotent British ambassador to the court of Naples. Willing to do anything for love and fame, she sets out to make herself a star–and she succeeds beyond even her wildest dreams. Emma is sensuous, generous, artistic, at once shamelessly seductive and recklessly ambitious. In lucid, engaging prose, Williams brings to life a complex and intelligent woman. From the brothels of London to the glittering court of Naples and the pretentious country estate of the most powerful admiral in England, British debut historian Kate Williams captures the life of Emma Hamilton with all its glamour and heartbreak. But Emma Hamilton had been born to the poverty of a coal-mining town and spent her teenage years working as a prostitute. She was the most famous woman in England–the beautiful model for society painters Joshua Reynolds and George Romney, an icon of fashion, the wife of an ambassador, and the mistress of naval hero Horatio Nelson. ![]()
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