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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040718
Author:by TAMSIN DEAN

THIS HISTORICAL fiction is based on recorded fact: late 18th- century London was scandalised by rumours that The Honourable Mrs Damer was the lover of another woman. Lesbianism may be accepted now but at that time the rumours were enough to ruin her reputation.

Anne Damer was a Duchess's sister, cousin of Horace Walpole of Strawberry Hill, and intimate with their circle of famous friends, but she had already outraged convention by living unchaperoned and accepting payment for her sculptures.

She and her friend, the actress Eliza Farren, were at the mercy of scurrilous pamphleteers. The ...

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