Whapper
Norman Page, 8 January 1987
Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton
by Flora Fraser.
Weidenfeld, 410 pp., £14.95, September 1986,0 297 78895 7 Show More
by Flora Fraser.
Weidenfeld, 410 pp., £14.95, September 1986,
“... the only respect in which the images – whether Romney’s portraits or Korda’s film, and now Nigel Foxell’s novel – tell less than the whole truth. ‘It is a bad job to come from the Nephew to the Uncle but one must make the best of it,’ wrote Sir William to a friend. Emma too found it a bad job: to make matters worse, she was tricked into ... ”