Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life Of Mary Robinson - Hardcover

"A remarkable woman and an exceptional biography."
-Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

"Utterly absorbing, Paula Byrne's intensely researched Perdita aims to restore a measure of fame to a woman who, though a product of her time, seems our near-contemporary in her understanding of the workings of celebrity."
-Vogue

"A fascinating, page-turning, and probably definitive biography of this intriguing woman."
-Emma Donoghue, author of Life Mask and Slammerkin

"A fine biographer has conjured up a dazzling personality and brought her, laughing, back to life."
-Miranda Seymour, The Sunday Times (London)

"A work of genuine scholarship . . . a masterly portrait of a remarkable woman."
-Sunday Telegraph (London)

PAULA BYRNE has a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, where she is a research fellow in English literature. A regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, she lives in Warwickshire with her two young children and her husband, the critic and biographer Jonathan Bate. Perdita is her first book to be published in the U.S.