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Hardcover:
9781250062635, titled "Scarlet Women: The Scandalous Lives of Courtesans, Concubines, and Royal Mistresses" | Thomas Dunne Books, January 26, 2016, cover price $26.99
Hardcover:
9780752465388 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 2013, cover price $24.95
Product Description: She has been known as the "kept woman," the "fancy woman," and the "other woman." She exists as both a fictional character and a flesh-and-blood human being. But what do Madame de Pompadour, Jane Eyre, and Camilla Parker-Bowles have in common? Why do women become mistresses, and is a mistress merely a wife-in-waiting, or is she the very definition of the emancipated, independent female? In Mistresses, Elizabeth Abbott intelligently examines the motives and morals of some of the most infamous and fascinating women in history and literature...read more
Hardcover:
9781590204436 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $30.00
Paperback:
9781468300550 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, September 25, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: She has been known as the "kept woman," the "fancy woman," and the "other woman.
9780715641491 | Gardners Books, December 8, 2011, cover price $18.60 | About this edition: She has been known as the 'kept woman', the 'fancy woman' and the 'other woman'.
Hardcover:
9780767904506 | Broadway Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A provocative study of the life and times of the West's first female power brokers explains how courtesans used their liaisons with some of the world's most powerful and celebrated men to give themselves an extraordinary influence, wealth, and freedom in a male-dominated world and offers profiles of these remarkable women, including Veronica Franco, Madame de Pompadour, and Marion Davies.
Paperback:
9780330488075, titled "Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues" | New edition (Pan Macmillan, March 7, 2003), cover price $14.10 | About this edition: This volume illustrates the intricacies of the great courtesans' lavish lifestyles and their incredible life stories.
9780767904513 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, September 1, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A provocative study of the life and times of the West's first female power brokers explains how courtesans used their liaisons with some of the world's most powerful and celebrated men to give themselves an extraordinary influence, wealth, and freedom in a male-dominated world and offers profiles of these remarkable women, including Veronica Franco, Madame de Pompadour, and Marion Davies.
Miscellaneous:
9780767910828 | Broadway Books, February 6, 2002, cover price $15.95
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