Buy this book on-line HAWKSLEY,LUCINDA: : The Mystery of PRINCESS LOUISE: QUEEN VICTORIA'S REBELLIOUS DAUGHTERLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2013. ISBN 9780701183493.
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(Bertie's) photographic illustrated rear panel with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,
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backstrip,red headband with sewn-in red silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate plain dark purple eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xiipp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus lists/tables, acknowledgements,an intro,prologue,
31 chapters and prologue,16pp contemporary,period b/w illus+ photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp114/5 and pp258/9 respectively,a biblio and an index.
Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,and 12pp blanks at rear. The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child,Princess Louise,may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic,tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumour and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate,often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy,she discovered a fascinating woman,modern before her time,whose story has been shielded for years from public view.
Louise was a sculptor and painter,
friend to the Pre-Raphaelites and a keen member of the Aesthetic movement.The most feisty of the Victorian princesses,she kicked against her mother's controlling nature and remained fiercely loyal to her brothers - especially the sickly Leopold and the much-maligned
Bertie.She sought out other unconventional women,including Josephine Butler and George Eliot,
and campaigned for education and health reform and for the rights of women.She battled with her indomitable mother for permission to
practice the masculine art of sculpture and go to art college - and in doing so became the first British princess to attend a public school.The rumours of Louise's colourful love life persist even today,with hints of love affairs dating as far back as her teenage years,and notable scandals included entanglements with her sculpting tutor Joseph Edgar Boehm and possibly even her sister Princess Beatrice's handsome husband,Liko.
True to rebellious form,she refused all royal suitors and became the first member of the royal family to marry a commoner since the sixteenth
century.Spirited and lively,'The Mystery of Princess Louise' is richly packed with arguments,
intrigues,scandals and secrets,and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance.
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