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'Lisa Hilton has produced a...challenging book...she enfolds the elusiveness of her Duchess within the pleasures and obsessions of her times in such a way that they become indistinguishable from each other...This is a vigorous and invigorating book about a culture in which one side of the street offered the sophistication of coffee-house conversation and the other a rotting corpse swinging from a rope.' (Frances Wilson THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (3.4.05) )
'Hilton's style is...positively edible.' (Alice Fordham OBSERVER (10.4.05) )
'[a] scintillating read and vivid picture of the age.' (SUNDAY EXPRESS (10.4.05) )
'Hilton's book is refreshing both in the lightness of its touch and the vividness of its descriptions...This is a portrait of an age, written with gaiety and an irreverence that would have delighted John Gay and his friends.' (Miranda Seymour SUNDAY TIMES (10.4.05) )
'Hilton has a real flair for making believable characters of historical figures and her portrait of the era is a soap opera with an 18th century cast. She has a finely tuned ear for gossip and scandal, and clearly relishes drama of all kinds. A wonderfully rich narrative history - informative, funny, risque and melodramatic.' (EASY LIVING (May) )
'Mistress Peachum's Pleasure is full of 18th-century colour; pantomimes, prostitutes and plump, truclent castrati; Gay, Pope, Swift and the Licensing Act of 1737.' (Mary Wakefield DAILY TELEGRAPH )
'Hilton...shows sharp wit and a healthy irony: she is splendid on an acting manual's recommendation for the exact angle of the left leg needed to indicate "Astonishment and Surprise", and grasps the Duke of Bolton's character as a great aristocratic booby well (the sort who, according to an 18th-century joke, thought that "Classics" was the county next to Essex)." (Min Wild INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (24.4.05) )
'Hilton's vivid portrait of the upwardly mobile Lavinia Fenton brilliantly realises the political, social, criminal and theatrical nature of these dazzlingly contradictory times.' (HISTORY TODAY (May 2005) )
'Lisa Hilton's account of the genesis of The Beggar's Opera is first rate, and her portrayal of the social and political context of early eary eighteenth-century London is vivid and compelling.' (Paula Byrne TLS (13.5.05) )
'Hilton writes in a lively manner, and the facts of this endlessly fascinating period ripple along.' (Rhoda Koenig INDEPENDENT (7.6.05) ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'Hilton's style is...positively edible.' (Alice Fordham OBSERVER (10.4.05) )
'[a] scintillating read and vivid picture of the age.' (SUNDAY EXPRESS (10.4.05) )
'Hilton's book is refreshing both in the lightness of its touch and the vividness of its descriptions...This is a portrait of an age, written with gaiety and an irreverence that would have delighted John Gay and his friends.' (Miranda Seymour SUNDAY TIMES (10.4.05) )
'Hilton has a real flair for making believable characters of historical figures and her portrait of the era is a soap opera with an 18th century cast. She has a finely tuned ear for gossip and scandal, and clearly relishes drama of all kinds. A wonderfully rich narrative history - informative, funny, risque and melodramatic.' (EASY LIVING (May) )
'Mistress Peachum's Pleasure is full of 18th-century colour; pantomimes, prostitutes and plump, truclent castrati; Gay, Pope, Swift and the Licensing Act of 1737.' (Mary Wakefield DAILY TELEGRAPH )
'Hilton...shows sharp wit and a healthy irony: she is splendid on an acting manual's recommendation for the exact angle of the left leg needed to indicate "Astonishment and Surprise", and grasps the Duke of Bolton's character as a great aristocratic booby well (the sort who, according to an 18th-century joke, thought that "Classics" was the county next to Essex)." (Min Wild INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (24.4.05) )
'Hilton's vivid portrait of the upwardly mobile Lavinia Fenton brilliantly realises the political, social, criminal and theatrical nature of these dazzlingly contradictory times.' (HISTORY TODAY (May 2005) )
'Lisa Hilton's account of the genesis of The Beggar's Opera is first rate, and her portrayal of the social and political context of early eary eighteenth-century London is vivid and compelling.' (Paula Byrne TLS (13.5.05) )
'Hilton writes in a lively manner, and the facts of this endlessly fascinating period ripple along.' (Rhoda Koenig INDEPENDENT (7.6.05) ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Rhoda Koenig, INDEPENDENT (7.6.05)
'Hilton writes in a lively manner, and the facts of this endlessly fascinating period ripple along.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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