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The Mistress
Histories, Myths and Interpretations of the Other Woman
by Victoria Griffin- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- ISBN: 9781582340531 (1582340536)
- Format: hardcover, 320 pages
- Genres: womens, history
- Release date: October 15, 1999
- Language: english
- Author: Victoria Griffin
About The Book
As long as there is marriage, there will also be the Mistress. Why then, does our society still behave as if marital infidelity were some unfathomable aberration?
Mythology is rich with mistresses — both divine and mortal — some who have played their roles cunningly and to perfection, and some who have destroyed themselves and all around them. Famous mistresses have not only graced literature but have written it. Courtesans have been a feature of royal courts throughout history. And, whether or not we admit it, or feign nave ignorance, mistresses are women we know, here and now.
Victoria Griffin, herself a mistress, brings her steady yet startling focus on the mistresses in history and culture, past and present: from Camille Claudel to Monica Lewinsky, from Madame de Pompadour to Simone de Beauvoir, from George Eliot to Pamela Harriman. It is a subject as rich and diverse as history itself, alive with memorable characters. The Mistress will provoke and delight in equal measure.
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