Author Description

It is 1862 and Elizabeth Welburn has decided to share the secrets of her amazing life with you. She trusts you not to tell anyone about her involvement in the many scandals that outraged English society over the past forty years. Her acquaintance with people like Sarah Siddons, Georgiana, Duchess of Carlisle, Richard Sheridan, George Canning, Henry Hunt and John Bellingham, the man hung for the murder of the Prime Minister, are all part of this fascinating story.<br/><br/>A humdrum, small town life was never what Elizabeth contemplated. Happily, a travelling theatre company brought her opportunities to attain status in her own right. After often being let down by the men in her life, she learned to use her powers of persuasion to get what she wanted from them. At the time of writing, she is satisfied she can be recognised as a benevolent and successful member of society, but how did she manage that?<br/><br/>As a single middle-class woman, she perceives events of the nineteenth century quite differently from your usual upper-class male historians.