Fascinating Women: Liane de Pougy
byLiane de Pougy was a member of what was known as Les Grandes Horizontales–and was the most infamous of them all. During France’s Belle…
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Fascinating Women: Nancy Astor
byOn paper it looked incongruous: how did a divorced Southern aristocrat charm not only English society but enough rural constituents to make history as…
Fascinating Women: Sissieretta Jones
byOpera singers were the world’s first pop stars, and the nineteenth century saw the apex of diva and divo worship, with hundreds of thousands…