Lesley Blanch\'s novella-length introduction to the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, the reigning Courtesan of Regency London, was first published in 1955 in New York, where she was then living with her diplomat-novelist husband, Romain Gary.
The Greatest cour.
Harriette Wilson lived among and was an integral part of a wealthy society where privilege, arrogance and leisure flourished.
The Wilder Shores of Love, for which Blanch is chiefly remembered, had been published to acclaim the previous year.
Lesley Blanch\'s novella-length introduction to the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, the reigning Courtesan of Regency London, was first published in 1955 in New York, where she was then living with her diplomat-novelist husband, Romain Gary
