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Kavanagh (contributing editor, Economist; Nureyev: The Life) introduces to a new generation of readers Marie Duplessis (1824–47), a gritty and gutsy young woman who overcame abandonment by her mother and sexual exploitation by her father to captivate 1840s Paris before dying tragically at the age of 23. Dubbed "the lady of the camellias" because of her ostentatious attachment to that hothouse status symbol, the peasant girl-turned- courtesan wa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More