Mary Anne - Daphne du Maurier
Category: Classic
Narrator: Carole Boyd
Tags: Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins Re-release Date:12-16-14 Publisher: Hachette Audio, She set mens hearts on fire and scandalized a country., In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers. Her personal charms are such, however, that before long she was a mistress to Frederick Augustus Brunswick the Duke of York and Albany, son of King George III. With her taste for luxury and power, Mary Anne, now a royal mistress, must aim higher. Her lofty connections allow her to establish a thriving trade in military commissions, provoking a scandal that rocks the government - and brings personal disgrace., She becomes the star witness for the opposition when the House of Commons launched an investigation into allegations that the Duke had been accepting payments in exchange for military commissions. Mary An
