Synopsis:
The author of The Pilgrim Princess reconstructs the life of the "Jacqueline Kennedy of her day"--Madame de Staël--a woman who transformed herself into the greatest hostess in eighteenth-century Paris.
About the Author:
Madame de Stael is Maria Fairweather's second biography. The first was The Pilgrim Princess: A Life of Princess Volkonsky published in 1999 of which Victoria Glendinning wrote, "A rich, compelling historical biography—the extraordinary story of a beautfiul princess whose life and loves were intimately interwoven with those of great men at the cataclysmic centre of events in early nineteenth-century Europe." Maria Fairtweather resides in England.
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