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Book reviews: Love and Dirt: Filthy tale of an odd couple's lust

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20030125
Author:CLAIRE TOMALIN

Love and Dirt, by Diane Atkinson (Macmillan, 15 pounds and 99 pence)

NOT EVERY Victorian gentleman dreamed of being married to a lady. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris both took artists' models as their wives, Wilkie Collins had two menages with women he picked up, one in the street, the other at an inn where she was a servant. The second Duke of Cambridge, Queen Victoria's first cousin, married a dancer with two illegitimate children, gave her three more sons and set up home with them all in Mayfair - and became commander-in-chief of the army.

Diane Atkinson has unearthed another ...

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