REBEL HEART CL by Ms Lovell

REBEL HEART CL by Ms Lovell

The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen

A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludvig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to the Orient. In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab who was twenty years her junior.

Bestselling biographer Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digby's diaries not only a sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman, but a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.

Mary S.Lovell is the author of Sir Richard Burton, Jane Digby, the Mitford Girls, Betty Cynthia Pack, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as other notable biographies on Sir Richard Burton, Jane Digby, the Mitford Girls, Betty Cynthia Pack, and Bess of Hardwick. She resides in the English county of Hampshire.