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Mary Anne Thompson was born on 3 April 1776 in London, the daughter of a humble tradesman. Attractive and intelligent, she was married before the age of 18, to a man named Clarke, who worked as a stonemason. However, shortly after the marriage, her husband went bankrupt, and Mary Anne Clarke left him because of this.
Mary Anne. (novel) 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). [1] It was published by Gollancz in the UK and by Doubleday in the US. Mary Anne Clarke from 1803 to 1808 was mistress of Frederick Augustus, the Duke of ...
Mary Anne Clarke, główna bohaterka tej książki, to postać historyczna i prababka autorki - córka Mary Anne Clarke, Ellen, poślubiła Louisa Mathurin Busson du Maurier. Mary Anne Clarke urodziła się 3 kwietnia 1776 roku w Londynie, w bardzo biednej rodzinie.
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 alcoholism, and recognizing her taste for luxury and power, became the mistress of the Duke of York during the Napoleonic Wars.
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.
Portrait of a Lady from a drawing by Adam Buck [Mary Anne Clarke at the Base of a Statue], 1803. In The Connoisseur, vol. XLI (1915), p. 180. Regency portrait painter Adam Buck completed this painting of Mary Anne Clarke, a fashionable society hostess and later mistress of the Duke of York, several years before she was at the center of a government scandal that caused a media sensation.
5 de dic. de 2023 · Mary Anne Clarke, scandalous mistress of the Duke of York, directed, starred, and costumed her life as if it were an eighteenth-century play. Except it wasn’t. Born to a tradesman in Covent Garden, Clarke used her wit, looks, and charm to work her way up the ranks of British society, eventually hooking up with one of the Royal sons.
