by Nigel Cawthorne · William Heinemann Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780434008988
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«The Empress of South America» is Nigel Cawthorne's historical biography of Eliza Lynch, in hardback, published by William Heinemann in English.
Biography of Eliza Lynch, an Irishwoman who escaped the famine and became one of the most celebrated courtesans of nineteenth-century Paris. She accompanied Francisco Solano López in the project of turning Paraguay into an empire; the book recounts her rise, her excesses and the war that devastated the country, and how her figure became a national myth.
The work has 320 pages and was published in 2003. It includes maps on the endpapers, bibliographic references and an index.
Suitable for those interested in the history of South America and in biographies of controversial nineteenth-century figures.
Nigel Cawthorne is a British freelance writer and editor of both fiction and non-fiction. He is also a journalist and specializes in writing about history.
