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Mistress Peachum's Pleasure: A Biography of Lavinia, Duchess of Bolton Book

A biography of the first 'Polly Peachum', the 18th century actress who became the Duchess of Bolton, Lavinia Fenton.Read More

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    "Mistress Peachum" was Lavinia Fenton, an 18th-century actress who was the original Polly Peachum in John Gay?s celebrated play, The Beggar?s Opera. Both Lavinia and the play were overnight sensations; however, she enjoyed only a few months of fame before she caught the eye of the Duke of Bolton, a married aristocrat, and her life of glamour became ever more scandalous. With a cast of politicians and pickpockets, highwaymen and whores, Mistress Peachum?s Pleasure brilliantly illuminates the interplay between the theater and the social and political climate of 18th-century London. Lisa Hilton was educated at Oxford University and lives in New York.

  • 0753820498
  • 9780753820490
  • Lisa Hilton
  • 2 March 2006
  • Phoenix
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • New Ed
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