PERDITA: THE LIFE OF MARY ROBINSON

One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson’s life was marked by reversals of fortune. This authoritative and engaging book presents a fascinating portrait of a woman who was variously darling of the London stage, a poet whose work was admired by Coleridge and a mistress to the most powerful men in England, and yet whose fortunes were nevertheless precarious, always on the brink of being squandered through recklessness, excess and passion.