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Mary Anne Clarke (born Mary Anne Thompson; 3 April 1776 – 21 June 1852) was the mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Their relationship began in 1803, while he was Commander-in-Chief of the army. Later in 1809, she wrote her memoirs which were published.
- Mary Anne, Edward (1795–c.1800), Ellen Jocelyn du Maurier (1797–1870), George
- Joseph Clarke
- English
- Mistress of Frederick, Duke of York
Daphne du Maurier's novel Mary Anne (1954) is a fictionalised account of the real-life story of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke, née Thompson (1776-1852). It was published by Gollancz in the UK and by Doubleday in the US.
Not surprisingly, Mary Anne Clarke’s body, fashion choices, and theatricality feature prominently in representations that center on her feminine duplicity and dangerous sexuality. Clarke’s attempts to represent herself as an innocent heroine are parodied through references to her role as a mistress and her desire for fame and luxury.
2,579 ratings305 reviews. She set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country. In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers.
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Presents a novel based on the life of the author's great-great-grandmother Mary Anne Clarke, a young woman who passed herself off as a widow after her husband was institutionalized for...
- Daphne Du Maurier
- R. Bentley, 1971
- the University of California
- Mary Anne: A Novel
17 de ago. de 2012 · In 1803 Mary Anne became the kept mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York, the second son of King George III and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. He set her up in a mansion with numerous servants and an allowance of £100 a month (about $5600/month today), but the total cost of the household was roughly five times that.
Laura Engel, Professor of English, Duquesne University, considers the dichotomy of how Mary Anne Clarke, mistress of the Duke of York in the first decade of the nineteenth century, was portrayed–both in the beauty of the stylish pictures and the virulent, cruel attacks mounted by the caricature.
