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All of London is enchanted by Mary Robinson's beauty in her stage-role of Perdita, not to mention the Prince of Wales in this year of 1779. Their romance is eagerly followed by the King's enemies, who introduce him to a dissipated life of gambling, racing & bawdy, brilliant talk. Perdita disapproves, but the spoiled Prince is not going to let her ruin his fun nowTags
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A good book about George III and the Prince of Wales and his first mistress. Not a great book, the subject matter is a bit dreary. No-one gets their head chopped off. No revolutions. Even the people are a bit dull. However, it did teach me more about the politics of the period than my O'level history.
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259+ Works 37,402 Members
Jean Plaidy was a British writer who wrote under various pen names. Her real name is Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert. She was born in London on September 1, 1906. Most of the books written as Jean Plaidy are historical romances based on English history featuring historical figures. The first, Beyond the Blue Mountains, was published in 1947. Hibbert show more also wrote five nonfiction histories and two children's books. Besides Jean Plaidy, Hibbert wrote under Victoria Holt, Phillipa Carr, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, and her maiden name, Eleanor Burford. Hibbert died on January 18, 1993. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Perdita's Prince
- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- Mary Darby Robinson; George IV
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ3 .H5212 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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