- Taschenbuch: 365 Seiten
- Verlag: Harpercollins UK; Auflage: New (1. September 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1857024699
- ISBN-13: 978-1857024692
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13 x 2,3 x 19,7 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 169.578 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Her 1830 divorce caused a sensation, and from that time until her 1881 death, "her name was rarely out of the newspapers as she featured in one outrageous tale after another." Jane Digby was born into the English aristocracy, growing up privileged by beauty as well as birthright. And, as the reader observes in this graceful, exhaustively researched biography, Jane's dimensions of character and parameters of experience continued to grow in excess of what is ordinary. Her affair with an Austrian prince and consequent divorce from her prominent husband made it untenable for her to remain in or return to England; she then had a succession of lovers and husbands, including, by the time she was in middle age, "the love of her life," a bedouin sheikh young enough to be her son. She was larger than life, but here she is made comprehensible yet still romantic; her incredible existence is told respectfully and authentically in all its full color. For all libraries with active history and biography readerships. Brad Hooper
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For the few who may actually think that the lifestyles of the vain and vapid are anything new, this work is recommended reading. As a society woman of Regency England, Jane Digby (an ancestor of Pamela Harriman) would have a series of children (mostly unloved) by a series of husbands and lovers, including a number of princes and lords, her first cousin, an Albanian bandit chieftain, and an Arab sheik young enough to be her son. Her life reads like a series of romantic novels, all starring a self-centered beauty. Lovell, who wrote previously of Beryl Markham in Straight on Till Morning (LJ 9/15/87), has done an admirable job of documenting one person's rebellious life. For public libraries.
Katherine Gillen, Luke Air Force Base Lib., Ariz.
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Katherine Gillen, Luke Air Force Base Lib., Ariz.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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From the British upper class to Queen of the Desert
14. Mai 2003
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
When the then Pamela Digby Churchill (later to be Pamela Churchill Harriman) shocked British and European society with her string of marriages and romantic alliances, she was actually following more in the footsteps of an ancestor than blazing new ground. Over a hundred years before Pamela romped her way through Europe and America, the Honorable Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough was embarkening on a series of affairs that drove her from England and eventually to the desert where she spent her final years.
Mary S. Lovell could have potrayed Jane Digby as a heartless tramp or made her a cartoon maneater that wouldn't be out of place in a Jackie Collins novel. At times, Jane Digby's life does seem larger than life and more like a daytime soap opera. Her lovers included crowned heads of states and even her own beloved cousin. Her final years were spent as the wife of a Beduoin chief, performing the traditional female duties while the tribe was traveling. Luckily, Mary S. Lovell is a carefully biographer who sorted through masses of documents to find the truth behind the rumors and legends.
Along with the legacy of her scandals, Jane become a mother several times. Her children, mostly seen as more annoyance than objects of affection, where left with their fathers when Jane moved onto her next adventure. Tragically, one of her daughters succumbed to madness and two of her sons died in childhood.
If you adore biographies or have come across the name Jane Digby in your reading, "Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby" is must read.
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Cracking good read!
25. Januar 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I adore biography - especially those of the great characters of the second half of the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. I knew of Jane Digby el Mezrab from Irving Wallace's Nymphos and Other Maniacs which I read many years ago and also via several biographies of Sir Richard Burton. This is a well written, carefully and extensively researched book which benefited enormously from the author's good luck in uncovering much new, previously unseen and unpublished family material in Dorset and New Zealand. This, the author says in her acknowledgements, is more satisfying than the publication of the book itself. I agree, for this sort of discovery is palpably thrilling and the author's excitement shines through her narrative.
This biography reads like fiction and Jane Digby, firstly Lady Ellenborough, was one of those larger than life people who followed their own path, irrespective of the mores of their own time. Following Jane's life is a tour through the drawing rooms of Regency England, several European and Balkan courts to the deserts of Syria and Arabia. It is the story of a woman (thrice divorced) who eventually found happiness and fulfilment with a man of great nobility from an entirely different race, culture and religion. Jane's interest in the minutiae of life in Damascus in the mid 19th century makes fascinating reading and her wit and fondness for her adopted "tribe" in the desert is moving.
Highly recommended!
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Should be retitled: The Extraordinary Life of Jane Digby
5. Juni 1999
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I have read this book and the only thing Scandalous about is is that the publisher has not reprinted it! The herstory of the Middle East has many intriguing women who have done remarkable things. These women like Jane Digby, loved the desert no less than many of the "heroes" we all can still read about today. Yet their travels are scarcely cited. Jane Digby's romantic trysts may have stunned her peers, but today her story is fascinating. Visiting Damascus, travelling to Palmyra, each had such a different impact knowing I was seeing what she saw over a hundred years ago. In a region where the dominance of males, Islam and the harsh desert life is well documented, it is a shame more interested readers cannot learn why a western woman would chose it as her home in the 19th century. The author stays away from judgements about Jane Digby, and presents her as honestly as she was-a rebel of the heart.
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