The true and remarkable life-story of a little milliner whose manifold attractions secured, as her first husband, a wealthy fox-hunting squire from Wales, Wyndham Lewis, whom she married in the year of Waterloo. She induced him to stand for Parliament, and, thanks to her electioneering efforts, amusingly described, he won the seat for Cardiff. Later, established in a mansion in Mayfair, she gained a foothold in Society, although she was perhaps not quite so popular with women as with men. After the death of Wyndham Lewis, she became the wife of one of the greatest statesmen this country has ever known. In this full-length portrait of Mary Anne Disraeli, Doris Leslie, with her inimitable sense of comedy and subtle character-drawing, shows how a woman of little culture and no education charmed the heart out of that extraordinary being who had all London at his feet when he flung himself at her; and who, when Queen Victoria offered him a peerage, asked that it would be given instead to her whom he named "the perfect wife".
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