EBOOK BEAUX AND BELLES OF ENGLAND ***
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[Frontispiece:
The Attempted Abduction
Original painting by B. Wesley Rand]
Beaux & Belles of England
Mrs. Mary Robinson
Written by Herself
With the Lives of the Duchesses of Gordon
and Devonshire by Grace and Philip Wharton
London
EDITION DE LUXE
INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION
The following brief memoirs of a beautiful, engaging, and, in many
respects, highly gifted woman require little in the way of introduction.
While we may trace same little negative disingenuousness in the writer,
in regard to a due admission of her own failings, sufficient of
uncoloured matter of fact remains to show the exposed situation of an
unprotected beauty--or, what is worse, of a female of great personal and
natural attraction, exposed to the gaze of libertine rank and fashion,
under the mere nominal guardianship of a neglectful and profligate
husband. Autobiography of this class is sometimes dangerous; not so that
of Mrs. Robinson, who conceals not the thorns inherent in the paths
along which vice externally scatters roses; For the rest, the
arrangement of princely establishments in the way of amour is pleasantly
portrayed in this brief volume, which in many respects is not without
its moral.
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