…Hewitt is a diligent researcher and her handsomely illustrated debut biography is crammed with period detail…she offers an intriguing insight into the precarious glamour of life as a 19th-century courtesan.
…Hewitt is a diligent researcher and her handsomely illustrated debut biography is crammed with period detail…she offers an intriguing insight into the precarious glamour of life as a 19th-century courtesan.