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S(fz LADY HESTER LUCY STANHOPE: a New Light on Her Life and Love Affairs. By FRANK HAM EL Author ci' "An Eighteenth Century Marquise," "Jean de la Fontaine," "The Dauphines ot France," etc. etc. IVith Tiventy Full-page Pkoiograiures CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne MCMXIII iir^i PREFACE " IN his six volumos of " Memoixs of Lady He-^ter Stanhope 1 and " Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope " Dr. Meryon, her pliysician, confined himself chiefly to material which he gathered from her Ladyship's conversation and such por- tions of her correspondence as came into his hands. More than half a century after the publication of these works the late Duchess of Cleveland's lf)yal and detailed life of her aunt was privately printed, in 1897. Besides referring to Dr. Meryon's MSS., the Duchess had access to family papers he had never seen ; but even then there are many incidents of Lady Hester's story of which the Duchess was ignorant, or which she chose to pass o\ t in silence. In tlie first place, she does not mention Lady Hester's love affair ,vith Michael Bruce, and her magnanimity in givin^ him up when the time came for him to follow his career in England—a career which unfortunately did nt)t turn out as brilliantly as Lady Hester expected. This episode is the pivot upon which Lady Hester's Eastern experiences turn. I gathered it by piecing together passages from her owa letters, hitherto suppressed by. or unknown to. her biographers, extracts from Dr. Mervuu's letters which have come into my possession and have never been printed iv Preface before, and various other documents, collected for the first time to form a complete account. In the second place, the Duchess of Cleveland never attempted to solve the question of the pos'^ibility of Lady Hester's marriage or love affair with an Arab sheik, a matter which Lady Hester refused to discuss openly to the close of her life. I can find no documentary references to this marriage, and it is impossible to make a definite state- ment upon merely hearsay evidence. The report has reached me, however, from so many more or less reliable sources, that it is impossible to ignore it altogether. I have talked with several people who remember friends in the East who had seen and spolrn to Lady Hester's " husband," but no name has been divulgetl. Lady Burton, when \ATiting of the Hon. Jane Digby (Lady Ellenborough) in her Memoirs, said she was worthy to be Lady Hester's successor. Jane Digby married a sheik by Mahometan rites, or, as Miss Stisted crudely puts it, in her Life of Sir Richard Burton, she " capped her wild career by marrying a camel driver." There may be something in the suggcouion that confusion has arisen between the stories of these two Englishwomen who found romance in the desert. Lady Hester was too proud to marry any Arab but the highest in rank, so that the choice of possible persons is not a large one, an'^ ir. time the solution to this—probably the last —important unsolved problem of her life may come to light. Consider- ing for a moment the possibility of a foundation of fact for these persistent rumours, it seems probable that the alliance with an Arab sheik must have taken place about 1820, at the time of Mervon's second visit. His mention ; 1 Preface v of this v-isit is mysteriously brief, being dismissed cursorily in the opening chapter to the " Memoirs " with the words, " Her Ladyship had in the meanwhile completely familiarised herself with the usages of the East, conducting her establish- ment entirely in the Turkish manner .
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