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Title: Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby by Mary S. Lovell ISBN: 0-393-03895-5 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be retitled: The Extraordinary Life of Jane Digby
Comment: I have read this book and the only thing Scandalous about is is that the publisher has not reprinted it! The herstory of the Middle East has many intriguing women who have done remarkable things. These women like Jane Digby, loved the desert no less than many of the "heroes" we all can still read about today. Yet their travels are scarcely cited. Jane Digby's romantic trysts may have stunned her peers, but today her story is fascinating. Visiting Damascus, travelling to Palmyra, each had such a different impact knowing I was seeing what she saw over a hundred years ago. In a region where the dominance of males, Islam and the harsh desert life is well documented, it is a shame more interested readers cannot learn why a western woman would chose it as her home in the 19th century. The author stays away from judgements about Jane Digby, and presents her as honestly as she was-a rebel of the heart.
Rating: 5
Summary: How is it that we have never heard of this amazing woman?
Comment: If Jane Digby had been a man she would have been Prime Minister. As a woman living in the early 1800s, she had little scope for her brilliance and personality except in romantic intrigue - and what intrigue. I was breathless after the the first few chapters, and yet there were still husbands aplenty to come, as well as passion and drama. Who of us now would throw caution to the winds and live in a cave with a brigand, or marry an Arab sheik 20 years younger? And yet she did so in a time when women were far more confined and limited in their options. Her ability to withstand society's strictures and disapproval, and go where no European women and very few European men had been before bespeaks a very strong mind. Her strength, intelligence and obvious sex appeal she would have made her a formidable woman. Mary Lovell is obviously fascinated by her subject and the pace never falters in her narrative, although the content is exhausting. A thoroughly wonderful read- I have given this book to many friends and they have all loved it. Besiege the publisher to do a reprint.
Rating: 5
Summary: From the British upper class to Queen of the Desert
Comment: When the then Pamela Digby Churchill (later to be Pamela Churchill Harriman) shocked British and European society with her string of marriages and romantic alliances, she was actually following more in the footsteps of an ancestor than blazing new ground. Over a hundred years before Pamela romped her way through Europe and America, the Honorable Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough was embarkening on a series of affairs that drove her from England and eventually to the desert where she spent her final years.
Mary S. Lovell could have potrayed Jane Digby as a heartless tramp or made her a cartoon maneater that wouldn't be out of place in a Jackie Collins novel. At times, Jane Digby's life does seem larger than life and more like a daytime soap opera. Her lovers included crowned heads of states and even her own beloved cousin. Her final years were spent as the wife of a Beduoin chief, performing the traditional female duties while the tribe was traveling. Luckily, Mary S. Lovell is a carefully biographer who sorted through masses of documents to find the truth behind the rumors and legends.
Along with the legacy of her scandals, Jane become a mother several times. Her children, mostly seen as more annoyance than objects of affection, where left with their fathers when Jane moved onto her next adventure. Tragically, one of her daughters succumbed to madness and two of her sons died in childhood.
If you adore biographies or have come across the name Jane Digby in your reading, "Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby" is must read.
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Title: A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell ISBN: 0393320391 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Wilder Shores of Love: The Exotic True-Life Stories of Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby, and Isabelle Eberhardt by Lesley Blanch ISBN: 0786710306 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Fat Flush Plan by Ann Louise Gittleman, Barry Sears ISBN: 0071383832 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 06 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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