Editions

England's Mistress

  • Imprint: Arrow

  • ISBN: 9780099451839

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 333g

  • RRP: £12.99

England's Mistress

  • The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton

A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.

Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media superstar. Nothing could stand in the way of her dreams- except her self-destructive desires.

Drawing on hundreds of previously undiscovered letters, and told with a novelist's flair, England's Mistress captures the relentless drive, innovative style and burning passion of a true heroine. In a world of tabloid fame and three-minute wonders, Emma's life is truly a tale for our time.

  • Imprint: Arrow

  • ISBN: 9780099451839

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 27mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 333g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • This rich and bouncy biography of a driven woman - mad for fashion, mad on passion - makes Posh look like a novice

    Good Housekeeping

  • Sparkling like Emma's pawned diamonds ... Finally makes us understand why Nelson needed to be prised out of Emma's embrace to fight Napoleon...

    Daily Mail

  • It is the thoroughness of the research and attention to detail that make Kate Williams' new biography of Emma Hamilton so interesting. The iconic Emma has been continuously reimagined since her lover Nelson's death, but Williams offers a new portrait

    The Independent

  • Kate Williams has done a wonderful job recreating the life of the woman she wants us to relate to...This is an immensely colourful, readable portrait that revels in Emma's resilience and her ability to surmount what look to us now to be unimaginable odds

    Independent on Sunday

  • Gallops along like a gripping novel, with an utterly believable and sympathetic character at its heart

    Chesire Life

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About the Author

Kate Williams

Kate Williams is an author, social historian and broadcaster. She fell in love with history whilst studying for her BA and DPhil at the University of Oxford and has MAs from Queen Mary and Royal Holloway. She is a Professor of History and appears regularly on television – she recently presented The Stuarts, is the in-house historian and royal expert for CNN, and has appeared on programmes from The Great British Bake Off to election coverage and comedy panel shows. She has written five historical biographies and a series of historical novels, and loves nothing more than a spending her time in dusty archives.

Kate Williams

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