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Divine Lola

By: Cristina Morató, Andrea Rosenberg - translator
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
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An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity.

Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous “Spider Dance” in the greatest performance halls across Europe, she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty, sexuality, and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor, a self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman, choosing a life of adventure, fame, sex, and scandal rather than submitting to the strictures of her era.

Lola cast her spell on the European aristocracy and the most famous intellectuals and artists of the time, including Alexandre Dumas, Franz Liszt, and George Sand, and became the obsession of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She then set out for the New World, arriving in San Francisco at the height of the gold rush, where she lived like a pioneer and performed for rowdy miners before making her way to New York. There, her inevitable downfall was every bit as dramatic as her rise. Yet there was one final reinvention to come for the most defiant woman of the Victorian age - a woman known as a “savage beauty” who was idolized, romanticized, vilified, truly known by no one, and a century ahead of her time.

©2017 by Cristina Morató. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2021 by Andrea Rosenberg.
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“Breezy, emphatic…This twisty chronicle of one woman’s quest for independence is mesmerizing.”Publishers Weekly

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Only somewhat interesting

I should have known better. I’m not interested in modern social celebrities, either. Give me a biography about someone who has actually done something besides splash their name all over the gossip columns! I just couldn’t get enough mojo collected to finish this book. I finally sent it back. Nothing against the writer.

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Entrancing story and well performed

My wife turned me on to this a few weeks ago when we were on a long drive. I was captivated by the story and I bought the audio book myself. What an amazing story about an amazing woman.

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Lola

A well written book about the well traveled life story of Lola Montez. The first half of the book I was appalled by Lola’s character and the choices that she made. This made it hard to see the strong, determined, persistent, witty, and progressive women that Lola was very until the later 1/2 of her life.

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Kept My Atrention

Well researched and written. Fascinating details provided colorfully, made me want to know more about Lola. She lived a short but full life albeit, full of fantasies and lies. A very enjoyable read.

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All Hail Lola!

if she lived today, The Kardasians would have a fine teacher. It's almost as though she traveled to the past from our time, to be a badass! her ethics were non existent until.she fell ill,.but, what a formidable, forward thinking, ancestor.

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Boring

The story was very boring and the story tellers voice was awful. I was so tired of hearing about the spider dance.

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