Don’t lock up the wife
E.S. Turner: Georgina Weldon, 5 October 2000
A Monkey among Crocodiles: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of Mrs Georgina Weldon
by Brian Thompson.
HarperCollins, 304 pp., £19.99, June 2000,0 00 257189 7 Show More
by Brian Thompson.
HarperCollins, 304 pp., £19.99, June 2000,
“... Orphanage’, an enterprise which failed to endear her to the ground landlord, the Duke of Bedford. The neighbours had to suffer a morning hour of organised yelling, designed to let the children ‘get the wickedness out of their systems’. The absurdity to which Georgina was blind now took over. At a social event she ensnared the composer Gounod, in ... ”