BOOK REVIEWS: England's Mistress; England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton, by Kate Williams, Hutchinson, priced pounds 20.(Features)

The Birmingham Post (England) | November 4, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Reviewed by Cathy Winston

It's a well-worn clichA to suggest that the stories told in autobiographies would be dismissed as too extraordinary were they fiction. But it is true when applied to the notorious Emma ...

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