Table of Contents
Family Trees 11
Introduction 19
Part I
1 My Prince - My Lover, and Now. Indeed, My Husband 23
2 Fine Sprightly Sweet Girls 28
3 Welcome to Williamsburg 32
4 Not Entirely Ill Made, But in Truth Nothing Resembling a Venus 45
5 Those Scrapes Which a Young Man May Very Easily Fall Into 55
6 We are the Ton 65
7 Rather Too Free with the World 71
8 I Half of You, You, Half of Me 76
9 He Says He Loves Me 80
10 I Must Not Will Not Love the Prince 88
11 We Can Never Be Happy Together 94
12 The Strong Desire of Doing Right 100
13 Something Alarming Stops the Effusion of Joy 106
14 My Darling was Leaving His Unhappy Wife 111
15 I Hope Never Again to Set My Foot in a Ship 119
Part II
16 Dear London 129
17 I Was Again Married 136
18 This Unpleasant Business 141
19 Big With the Greatest Mischiefs 146
20 Anxieties and Miseries 150
21 The Effects of a Fatal Marriage 158
22 My Unfortunate Companions of Woe 164
23 Beggars of Us All 187
24 I Am to be No Further Troubled on that Subject 200
25 This Sad Reverse 209
Part III
26 Dear Ramsgate 225
27 An 'Accidental' Son 236
28 Keeping Account 240
29 My Two Treasures 244
30 A Very Foolish Young Man in Some of His Ideas 255
31 My Dearest Girl 263
32 Sad Unhappy Day 267
33 I Very Ill 271
34 Sir Augustus D'Este and Mademoiselle D'Este 280
Epilogue 289
Bibliography 291
Notes 296
Index 313
