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The Magnificent Montez, by Horace Wyndham
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Title: The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
Author: Horace Wyndham
Release Date: May 12, 2007 [EBook #21421]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Lola Montez, Countess of Landsfeld
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THE
MAGNIFICENT
MONTEZ
From Courtesan to Convert
By
HORACE WYNDHAM
"When you met Lola Montez, her reputation made you automatically think of bedrooms."
--ALDOUS HUXLEY.
HILLMAN-CURL, INC.
Publishers
NEW YORK
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FOREWORD
Sweep a drag-net across the pages of contemporary drama, and it is unquestionable that in her heyday no name on the list stood out, in respect of adventure and romance, with greater prominence than did that of Lola Montez. Everything she did (or was credited with doing) filled columns upon columns in the press of Europe and America; and, from first to last, she was as much "news" as any Hollywood heroine of ou