Description: Improper Pursuits: Scandalous Life of an Earlier Lady Diana Spencer - Hardcover with Dust Jacket Born Lady Diana Spencer in 1735, the eldest child of the third Duke of Marlborough, she was expected rigidly to follow a traditional path through life: educated in the fashion considered suitable for a girl, and married to a man of the appropriate rank for a duke's daughter. But finding herself in a desperately unhappy marriage to Viscount Bolingbroke, Lady Di overturned convention. She left her husband, maintained a secret relationship with her lover, Topham Beauclerk, hid the birth of an illegitimate child, and eventually helped to support herself by painting. Lady Di Beauclerk was a highly gifted artist who was able to use her scandalous reputation as an adulteress, aristocratic woman to further her career as a painter and designer. She painted portraits, illustrated plays and books, provided designs for Wedgwood's innovative pottery, and decorated rooms with murals. Championed by her close friend Horace Walpole, whose letters illuminate all aspects of her life, she was able to establish herself as an admired artist at a time when women struggled to forge careers. New, never read, in great condition. From a clean, non-smoking home. Questions ??? Contact me INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING done through Ebay’s Global Shipping Program Note: Color may vary some due to monitor settings
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Publication Year: 2002
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Improper Pursuits: Scandalous Life of an Earlier Lady Diana Spenc
Author: Carola Hicks
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrations
Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Genre: History, Biography & Autobiography, Art
Topic: Artists, Photographers, Royalty, Europe / Great Britain, Architects
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
