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Item Condition: Used; Very Good
1968
The story of a woman with the
'Nell Gwynn touch' and of her
unprecedented act of revenge
against a faithless lover.
Mary Anne is Daphne du Maurier's
frank account of the life of her
great-great-grandmother who for a
time lived 'under the protection of
the Duke of York during the
Napoleonic Wars.
Mary Anne was typical of a cynical
age in which bribery, vice, intrigue,
and the sale of military transfers
and promotions were the order of
the day. If she was unscrupulous,
how else could a royal mistress
augment her niggardly allowance?