The biography of Jane Digby an enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart
- & hormones
- ruled her head. Harpers & Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince King Ludvig I of Bavaria & a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to the Orient. In Syria she found the love of her life a Bedouin nobleman Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab who was twenty years her junior. Bestselling biographer Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digbys diaries not only a sympathetic & dramatic portrait of a rare woman but a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.