Seductress (60 page)

238
Her face bore . . . :
Quoted in Casagrande, “Protected Woman,” 93.

238
The clergy published . . . :
Quoted in Capefigue,
King’s Mistress,
14.

238
Secure in her . . . :
Wismes,
Great Royal Favorites,
2.

239
In a pathologic inversion . . . :
D’Orliac,
Lady of Beauty,
192.

239
It’s easier for . . . :
Voltaire poem quoted ibid., 200.

239
Agnès’s favorite pet . . . :
Quoted ibid., 159.

239
And for decades . . . :
Quoted in Capefigue,
King’s Mistress,
58.

239
With her pastel beauty . . . :
Quoted in Mary S. Lovell,
Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby
(New York: Norton, 1995), 15.

239
She became the iconic . . . :
William Wordsworth, “She Was a Phantom of Delight,”
English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement,
ed. George Benjamin Woods (Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1950), 321.

240
She was taught . . . :
Eva Figes, “Rousseau, Revolution, Romanticism, and Retrogression,”
Patriarchal Attitudes
(Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1970), 94.

240
Her parents could . . . :
Quoted in Schmidt,
Passion’s Child,
23.

241
Eventually she had . . . :
Quoted ibid., 82 and 91.

241
When he saw . . . :
Lovell,
Rebel Heart,
88.

241
Jane then divorced Karl, . . . :
Quoted ibid., 125.

242
She gave Xristo . . . :
Ibid., 146.

242
Still beautiful at . . . :
Quoted in Schmidt,
Passion’s Child,
153.

242
Medjuel el Mezrab . . . :
Quoted in Lovell,
Rebel Heart,
237.

243
With her eyes . . . :
Quoted ibid., 202.

243
Medjuel, a renowned . . . :
Schmidt,
Passion’s Child,
213.

243
She must kiss . . . :
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi,
trans. Sir Richard F. Burton (New York: Putnam’s, 1963), 66 and 86.

243
She was “out . . .”:
Quoted in Lovell,
Rebel Heart,
290.

243
Impatient with “cooped . . .”:
Quoted ibid., 274.

243
Heeding the call . . . :
Lesley Blanch,
The Wilder Shores of Love
(London: Abacus, 1984), 192.

243
“Oh,” Jane exclaimed . . . :
Quoted ibid., 270.

243
After watching a . . . :
Quoted ibid., 197.

244
She loved him . . . :
Quoted ibid., 284.

244
Arabella, he fumes, . . . :
Honoré Balzac,
Lily of the Valley,
trans. Lucienne Hill (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), 215 and 201, and Schmidt,
Passion’s Child,
117.

244
She was a “notorious . . .”:
Quoted in Schmidt,
Passion’s Child,
60, and Lovell,
Rebel Heart,
63.

244
But like Balzac’s minx . . . :
Balzac,
Lily of the Valley,
213.

244
All that mattered . . . :
Quoted in Blanch,
The Wilder Shores of Love
, 192.

244
“This was freedom! . . .”:
Byron, “Childe Harold,” Canto III, verse 15, and quoted in Lovell,
Rebel Heart,
141.

245
The impostor was . . . :
Quoted in Ishbel Ross,
Uncrowned Queen,
203.

245
An “insatiable amoureuse” . . . :
Ibid., 1, and quoted in Donna Lawson, intro., Madame Lola Montez,
The Arts and Secrets of Beauty
(New York: Chelsea House, 1964), xviii.

245
“I am a free . . .”:
quoted in Donna Lawson, intro., Madame Lola Montez,
The Arts and Secrets of Beauty
(New York: Chelsea House, 1964), xviii.

245
A king abdicated . . . :
Quoted in Bruce Seymour,
Lola Montez: A Life
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 167.

245
Teachers decried her . . . :
Quoted ibid., 10 and 13.

246
Armed with an . . . :
Ross,
Uncrowned Queen,
17.

246
She had the . . .”:
Quoted ibid., 89.

246
Men clapped “until . . .”:
Quoted in Seymour,
Lola Montez,
48.

247
Instantly captivated, he . . . :
Quoted ibid., 70, and Helen Holdredge,
The Woman in Black: The Life of the Fabulous Lola Montez
(New York: Putnam’s, 1955), 7.

247
He wrote a sonata . . . :
Quoted in Seymour,
Lola Montez,
21.

247
But the “lightless . . .”:
Quoted ibid., 67.

247
The next day Ludwig . . . :
Quoted ibid., 89, and quoted in Seymour,
Lola Montez,
108.

247
She stroked his . . . :
Quoted in Seymour,
Lola Montez,
363.
247-48
She wanted him . . . :
Quoted ibid., 232.

248
The university closed . . . :
Quoted in Lawson, intro.,
Arts,
xiv.

248
Shattered and deranged . . . :
Quoted in Ross,
Uncrowned Queen,
110.

249
Blaming herself, she . . . :
Quoted in Seymour,
Lola Montez,
363.

249
In love, she . . . :
Lola Montez, “Gallantry,” Charles Burr,
Lectures of Lola Montez: Including Her Autobiography
(Philadelphia: Peterson, 1858), 156.

249
They just needed . . . :
Lola Montez, “Autobiography,” Burr,
Lectures,
15.

249
Look at the experts . . . :
“Heroines of History,” Burr,
Lectures,
195.

249
But true to her contention . . . :
Quoted, Lawson, intro.,
Arts,
xviii.

249
Asked, “Why Lola?” . . . :
Jim Yardley, “Lola, Long Dead Is Still Getting Attention,”
New York Times,
April 26, 1998, 3.

249
As to be expected . . . :
Frederick Brown, “Whatever Lola Wanted,”
New Republic
(July 15 and 22, 1996), 37.

249
Move like the . . . :
Montez,
Arts,
17, and quoted in Ross,
Uncrowned Queen,
310.

250
“Anger,” writes Susan . . . :
Brownmiller,
Femininity,
210.

250
Not in male . . . :
See, for example, Richard Weber’s love poem “Elizabeth in Italy” with the opening line “Suddenly she slapped me,” as well as Catullus’s and Propertius’s celebrations of their mistress’s curses. Many books, such as Mario Praz’s
Romantic Agony,
199-300, discuss this theme in literature. See particularly Stoller,
Sexual Excitement;
John Money,
Love and Love Sickness
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), 4 and passim; and Michael R. Liebowitz,
The Chemistry of Love
(New York: Berkley Books, 1983). For a pop example of this male taste, see issues of
Femmes Fatales
(Forest Park, Ill.: Frederick S. Clarke, 1992-present).

250
Just as the “war . . .”:
Rougemont,
Love in the Western World,
243.

250
It was part . . . :
Meador,
Inanna,
151.

250
“Manly” and courageous, . . . :
Frymer-Kensky,
Wake of the Goddess,
29, and quoted in Meador,
Inanna,
118 and 119.

250
Seventeenth-century Europe had . . . :
Quoted in Hester W. Chapman,
Privileged Persons: Four Seventeenth-Century Studies
(New York: Reynal and William Morrow, 1966), 228 and 225, and Cyril Hughes Hartmann,
The Vagabond Duchess: The Life of Hortense Mancini Duchesse Mazarin
(London: George Routledge & Sons, 1926), from title.

250
She was a macha Hotspur . . . :
Fraser,
Weaker Vessel,
4 and passim.

250
When Cardinal Mazarin . . . :
Toivo David Rosvall,
The Mazarin Legacy: The Life of Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin
(New York: Viking, 1969), 40.

251
“Her mother’s darling,” . . . :
Chapman,
Privileged Persons,
183.

251
She ran riot . . . :
Hartmann,
Vagabond Duchess,
8.

251
Her assets included . . . :
Quoted in H. Noel Williams,
Rival Sultanas
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1915), note 177.

251
In striking contrast . . . :
Fraser,
Weaker Vessel,
409.

251
In five years Armand . . . :
Rosvall,
The Mazarin Legacy,
65.

252
But she scorched . . . :
Quoted ibid., 119.

252
A swashbuckling monarch . . . :
Chapman,
Privileged Persons,
220.

252
For three years . . . :
Meador,
Inanna,
118.

252
“I have found . . .”:
Quoted in Rosvall,
The Mazarin Legacy,
140.

252
After Charles died . . . :
Quoted in Chapman,
Privileged Persons,
225.

253
He called her . . . :
Quoted in Rosvall,
Mazarin Legacy,
179.

253
At the opening . . . :
Quoted ibid., 182.

253
“Everything about her,” . . . :
Quoted ibid., 174 and 189. The actual quote is “nothing is formed in you which does not turn to love,” 174.

253
Under his guidance . . . :
Hartmann,
Vagabond Duchess,
197.

253
Other female admirers . . . :
Quoted in intro, “The History of the Nun or The Fair Vow-Breaker,”
The Works of Aphra Behn,
ed. Janet Todd, vol. 3,
The Fair Jilt and Other Short Stories
(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995), 208.

253
“Each sex,” said . . . :
Quoted in Jeanine Delpech,
The Life and Times of the Duchess of Portsmouth
(New York: Roy Publishers, 1953), 109.

254
“Never have I . . .”:
Quoted in Chapman,
Privileged Persons,
242.

254
The court poet . . . :
“Satyr,” 1686, from Aphra Behn’s commonplace book, Bodleian Library, Ms. Firth c. 16 and BL ms. Harl. 7319. Courtesy of Professor Mary Ann O’Donnell.

254
She might have deserted . . . :
Meador,
Inanna,
151.

254
“She comes, she . . .”:
Ibid., 151, and quoted in Williams,
Rival Sultanas,
193.

254
This
über
siren, called . . . :
Quoted in Errol Trzebinski,
The Lives of Beryl Markham
(New York: Norton, 1993), 58, and quoted in Meador,
Inanna,
125.

255
In seduction, she . . . :
Quoted in Trzebinski,
Beryl Markham,
261.

255
Throughout her childhood . . . :
Quoted in Mary S. Lovell,
Straight On Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1987), 18.

255
At these all-night . . . :
Beryl Markham,
West with the Night
(New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1942), 106.

256
“It was impossible,” . . . :
Quoted in Trzebinski,
Beryl Markham,
53.

256
The local Masais . . . :
Quoted in Lovell,
Straight On Till Morning,
59.

256
When Jock Purvis, . . . :
Quoted in Trzebinski,
Beryl Markham,
66.

256
With her blond marcelled . . . :
Quoted in Lovell,
Straight On Till Morning,
58.

256
The men “surrounded . . .”:
Quoted in Trzebinski,
Beryl Markham,
107.

257
She found the . . . :
Markham,
West with the Night,
239.

257
Her “delicious sense . . .”:
Quoted in Trzebinski,
Beryl Markham,
221.

257
Those who experienced . . . :
Quoted ibid., 185.

257
During a two-month . . . :
Quoted ibid., 185.

258
Restive in captivity . . . :
Quoted in Lovell,
Straight On Till Morning,
248.

258
When Raoul caught . . . :
Quoted in Trzebinski,
Beryl Markham,
261.

259
Her farm manager, . . . :
Quoted in Lovell,
Straight On Till Morning,
283.

259
In her fifties . . . :
Quoted ibid., 289, 292, and 293.

259
The next ten years . . . :
Quoted ibid., 283.

259
A fortyish bachelor . . . :
Quoted in Trzebinski,
Beryl Markham,
317.

259
“I ADORE YOU,” . . . :
Quoted ibid., 342.

259
“I certainly have . . .” :
Quoted ibid., 25.

259
She claimed she’d . . . :
Markham,
West with the Night,
239 and 185.

260
Her most terrifying . . . :
Ibid., 200.

260
As her enemies . . . :
Quoted in Trzebinski,
Beryl Markham,
157.