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A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby
A Scandalous Life The Biography of Jane Digby Author:Mary S. Lovell Born into the aristocratic Digby family in 1807, the notorious and passionate beauty Lady Jane Digby ended her days in Damascus in 1881 as the wife of a Bedouin Sheikh. In the intervening years, she married at seventeen, eloped with an Austrian prince, married a German baron, had affairs with, among other, the King of Bavaria, a Corfiot count an... more »d an Albanian brigand general before finally finding romantic fulfillment at nearly fifty from marrying a Bedouin nobleman twenty years her junior.
Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digby's diaries not only a sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman, but also a fascinating glimpse into the centuries old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.« less