Nell Gwynne’s on Land and at Sea Kage Baker and Kathleen Bartholomew. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59606-464-5 ...

Nell Gwynne certainly knew how to live life to the full, packing a career as an orange seller, an actress and a royal mistress into her 37 years. Hereford has ...

PRETTY, WITTY NELL is an outrageous farce that retells the history of scandalous English actress/courtesan, Nell Gwynne - the famous mistress of the wild British monarch, King Charles II.

Nell Gwynne's place in history is assured courtesy of her (very public) relationship with King Charles II, and now an auction of her household accounts gives a fascinating snapshot of her home life.

As Hilary A. Hallett writes in her new biography, “The It Girl,” Nell Glyn would forge a long, lucrative career out of this raw material: the glamour and scandal of the upper classes, and ...

What an eye-opening lesson PRETTY, WITTY NELL was into the life of Nell Gwynne, the English actress who is perhaps best known as the mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity ...

Nell Gwynne certainly knew how to live life to the full, packing a career as an orange seller, an actress and a royal mistress into her 37 years. Hereford has ...

Nell Gwynne (or Gwyn or Gwynn) certainly knew how to live life to the full, packing a career as an orange seller, an actress and a royal mistress into her 37 years.