The Merry Duchess

by Joan Perkin

Book Overview

The story of Harriot Mellon is a unique, individual and perceptive insight into a vanished world of deprivation and privilege. Joan Perkin's book is the amazing story of a remarkable woman: Harriot Mellon, the poor child of strolling players in the late eighteenth century, who rose to become a star at Drury Lane in the heyday of Sarah Siddons and Dorothy Jordan, and the protegee and second wife of Thomas Coutts the royal banker. Annoyed by his three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844010155
• ISBN13: 9781844010158
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: New Generation Publishing
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"