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A review by mak506
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams
1.0
This is the book that made me realize how much I love my Kindle books: lugging it around as the author annoyed me increasingly only increased my annoyance with the whole endeavor of reading this book in dead tree format.
You know how people say a good nonfiction book can read like a novel? In this case, that's not a compliment. Williams should have written a historical fiction "biography", because that's essentially what this is, though it's not so compelling. As others have said, there are far too many suppositions with far too few sources, notes, or evidence. The sad thing is that she mentioned a number of striking things about 18th century life that I was curious to learn more about, but she provided no path to go learn more about any of them, let alone some of the things she improbably intuited about Emma and her family.
The other sad thing, probably not the fault of Williams, is that like Georgiana (whose biography by Amanda Foreman was well written and footnoted), I came to dislike Emma and Nelson both by the end of their story.
You know how people say a good nonfiction book can read like a novel? In this case, that's not a compliment. Williams should have written a historical fiction "biography", because that's essentially what this is, though it's not so compelling. As others have said, there are far too many suppositions with far too few sources, notes, or evidence. The sad thing is that she mentioned a number of striking things about 18th century life that I was curious to learn more about, but she provided no path to go learn more about any of them, let alone some of the things she improbably intuited about Emma and her family.
The other sad thing, probably not the fault of Williams, is that like Georgiana (whose biography by Amanda Foreman was well written and footnoted), I came to dislike Emma and Nelson both by the end of their story.