Title | : | Mary Anne |
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Author | : | Daphne du Maurier |
Release | : | 2021-01-10 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature |
Size | : | 1121286 |
This is the story of Daphne du Maurier’s great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke, born into a poor family in the East End of London, married at fifteen and the mother of four children by the time she was twenty-three. Mary Anne became a notorious courtesan and mistress of the Duke of York and was later the central figure in a political corruption scandal, the repercussions of which ultimately led to her downfall. |