My Darling Heriott by Jane Brown

Henrietta St John was born on St Swithun’s Day in 1699 into a world of wealth, privilege and seeming security. Beloved sister of rake and statesman. Viscount Bolingbroke, she grew up in Hogarthian London and Wiltshire, her ancestral home, into a headstrong woman of poetry and letters – Pope, Swift and Gay were amongst her acquaintance. Yet with more wit and intelligence than was good for a high-ranking woman of her time and a wild mane of dark curly hair, Henrietta was not the easiest of marriage propositions. She succumbed at twenty-seven, with her infatuation for the son of the infamous and exiled South Sea Company chief cashier. Soon afterwards, she was accused by her pompous husband of infidelity with a young poet, and sent into the country to moulder and die.

Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Year:	2006
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780007235704
Condition:	Good
Description:	Large. Page edges foxing, Cover fading and slightly wrinkled on spine.

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SKU: 1595390
Location: Biography