Tangled Souls - Love and Scandal Among the Victorian Aristocracy (Dismore Jane)(Pevná vazba)

'With painstaking skill, Dismore lays bare the double standards of the Souls' Artemis Cooper'Harry Cust has long needed to emerge from the shadows. A rich tapestry unfolds' Hugo VickersOutrageously handsome, witty and clever, Harry Cust was reputed to be one of the great womanizers of the late Victorian era. In 1893, while a Member of Parliament, he caused public scandal by his affair with artist and poet Nina Welby Gregory. When she revealed she was pregnant, horror swept through their circle known as 'the Souls', a cultured, mostly aristocratic group of writers, artists and politicians who also rubbed shoulders with luminaries such as Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells.With the unconventional Margot Tennant and philosopher-statesman Arthur Balfour at their center, the dazzling Souls eschewed the formalities of upper-class etiquette, valuing conversation
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