Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman, Elizabeth AbbottShe has been known as the 'kept woman', the 'fancy woman' and the 'other woman'. She exists as both a fictional character and flesh and blood human being. But who is she, really? What do Madame de Pompedour, Heloise, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Eyre and Camilla Parker Bowles have in common? Why do women become mistresses, and what is it like to have a private life that is usually also a secret life? Is a mistress merely a wife in waiting, or is she the very

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she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life

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