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Empress of Pleasure: The Life and Adventures of Teresa Cornelys

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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 368

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  • 9780141008707

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  • 2 mm

    Width
  • 13 mm

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  • 19 gram

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  • EMPRESS

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 2 SEPTEMBER 2004

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    Mrs Tersa Cornelys was a unique figure in 18th-century Europe. A Venetian-born opera singer well known on the stages of Vienna, Bayreuth and Holland, she came to London in 1759 aged 36, and opened the capital's first real concert venue and nightclub - Carlisle House in Soho Square. next 20 years. Outrageous, ingenious and indomitable, Mrs Cornelys enjoyed immense wealth and success during her lifetime, but although she earned a small fortune from carlisle house, she borrowed extensively, in common with many Londoners of the time, seldom paying her debts. her. Undaunted, Mrs Cornelys made a series of spectacular comebacks...  Read More

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    Judith Summers

    Judith Summers was born and brought up in London, England.

    A journalist, novelist and historian,she has published five novels and five non-fiction titles.

    Her memoir, My Life with George, and its sequel, The Badness of King George, both became international bestsellers, and her definitive history of Soho won the London Tourist Board Book of the Year award in 1990.


    Judith has recently re-published her early novels - Dear Sister, Crime and Ravishment, and Frogs and Lovers - as ebooks.