England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams Reviewed by Amanda Vaill
Washington Post Book World
"It's a story line too implausible for fiction: A beautiful girl, born in poverty and raised in squalor, parlays a job as a servant into that of an actress-model and professional escort; becomes the mistress of one wealthy aristocrat and the wife of another; turns into a media star whose picture is on every publication and in every house in the land; and carries on a wildly public adulterous love affair with the most famous man in the world...." Read the entire Washington Post Book World review.