The Memoirs of Mipsie

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('Even better than Lady Addle Remembers... more sexy, even rather naughty.. .very funny, a sort of upper class English Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' PUNCH In response to public demand Lady Addle takes up her expressive pen once more to follow her talented sister Mipsie on her adventures round the world. From East to West Mipsie behaves in that indefatigable way that made her a bedside name in five continents. From modest beginnings in a simple stately home she rose to be Duchess of Briskett, Princess Ubetzkoi, wife of several baronets, and an American millionairess, sentimentally returning to the rank of an English duchess between marriages. Debt, prison, gambling, white slavery, revolution, marriage-broking, all the pestilences of tne Twentieth Century have touched Mipsie's life, but she remains indomitable. If her story has its share of mistakes, which of ours has not? Her troubles arose from having perhaps too great a sense of worth, too discriminating a taste, too adventurous a nature, too warm a heart. What better faults, if faults they be!)