Dimensions
129 x 198 x 22mm
Born in Dorset into the aristocratic Digby family in 1807, the notorious and passionate beauty Lady Jane Digby ended her days in Damascus in 1881 as the wife of a Bedouin sheikh. In the intervening years, she married at seventeen, eloped with an Austrian prince, married a German barron, had affairs with, among others, the King of Bavaria, a Corfiot count and an Albanian brigand general before finally finding romantic fulfilment at nearly fifty from marrying the Bedouin nobleman twenty years her junior.
Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digby's diaries not only a sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman, but also a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.
Contains black and white photographs.
