Brussels, June 1815. The Duke of Wellington was marshalling the Allied forces in readiness to fight Napoleon, who had escaped from Elba in February that year. The many British living in the city at the time were enjoying cricket matches, race-meetings and picnics despite the threat of war. On the fifteenth, the ambitious Charlotte, Duchess of Richmond, held what was to become the most famous Ball in history, since it was interrupted by the news that Napoleon had attacked the Prussian army … [Read more...] about Beauty and Chivalry: The Duchess of Richmond’s Ball by Lisa Eveleigh
Interview with Author – Lisa Eveleigh
About Lisa Eveleigh: I work in publishing as a literary agent and represent mainly commercial and literary fiction, but have always loved reading biography in my free time, impelled, I suspect, by sheer curiousity about the lives of others. The novels of Georgette Heyer inspired my love of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and my first book 'Beauty and Chivalry', which tells the story of the famous ball shortly before Waterloo, is an expanded version of an essay which I wrote … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lisa Eveleigh
