England's Mistress by Kate Williams Summary
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Emma Hamilton's rise from poverty to become Admiral Nelson's lover captivated 18th-century society. Kate Williams' meticulously researched biography reveals how this cunning trendsetter used publicity tactics that modern celebrities still employ today. What scandalous secrets did Williams uncover in hundreds of previously undiscovered letters?
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The Rise of a Spectacular Beauty
Emma Hamilton's life reads like fiction too extraordinary to believe. Born Amy Lyon in 1765 to a blacksmith who died when she was just two months old, Emma grew up in crushing poverty in a mud-brick cottage with windows stuffed with rags. Yet unlike the other malnourished village children, she somehow blossomed into a girl with "sparkling eyes, clear skin, voluptuous good health, and bounding energy." Her mother managed to teach her basic reading and writing-rare advantages for a poor girl. By twelve, Emma was working as a maid, performing backbreaking labor: hauling coal, scrubbing floors, and emptying chamber pots while sleeping on blankets on the kitchen floor. Rather than accepting this fate, the young girl-head "stuffed with romantic dreams"-set off for London on a harrowing journey in a crowded stage wagon. After brief stints as a maid and theater assistant, by thirteen she was working in a Drury Lane tavern, possibly as a prostitute. Her fortunes changed dramatically when showman James Graham recruited sixteen-year-old Emma as one of his "Goddesses of Health" at his extravagant "Temple of Health," where her natural grace and beauty made her ideal for his spectacles. Soon after, she secured a position at Madam Kelly's exclusive brothel catering to London's elite, where her singing and dancing abilities were advertised in fashionable magazines.
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