Shappi Khorsandi on Emma, Lady Hamilton
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Kate Shappy's Biography, England's Mistress, the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
Kate shappy's starting to make the case that emma hamilton was more than just a mistress. Being a mistress of nelson and others was a very big partof who she was. She fought through. society intended girls like her to be ballasd for the industrial revolution, at the bottom of society. Also, she had this huge impact on art. And also, her attitudes, these performances we will talk about in a bit, that blew europe away and really transformed acting. All of those have been pressed down and undermined and ignored because there has been too much focus on on saying 'she was just a mistress'
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