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Article: Philip Key's Arts Diary: Emma more than love of Nelson's life; New praise from author.(Comment)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2004
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Byline: Philip Key
IT WAS just 20 years ago that bio grapher Flora Fraser arrived in Neston to research the life of the town's most famous inhab itant,Lady Hamilton.
In 1986 she published her book Beloved Emma, a sympathetic but not totally uncritical life of the woman who became notorious as Lord Nelson's lover.
Now a new edition of Beloved Emma has been published, giving Ms Fraser an opportunity to look bac
on her early work.
She was just out of university at the time and Beloved Emma was her first bio graphy. She has re-read it with ``occasional amusement but with great fondness,'' she records.
``I have not ...