Lillie [antikvár]

LILLIE LANGTRY, THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE OF HEROINES She was real life, but much larger-and beyond any novelist's imagination. She was the most celebrated siren of the Victorian Age, a common-born adventuress whose beauty, charm and guile made her the toast of society, the talk of two continents, the intimate of kings. Whistler clamored to paint her; Oscar Wilde compared her to Helen of Troy, wrote a play for herT and slept at her doorstep. <4The world's most beauliful woman"-- Once called "the world's most beautiful woman," LilJic Langtry became the mistress of England's King Edward VII, boré a daughter by a prince, and saw her own husband die in an insane asylum. She became a worldwide celebrity as the "Jersey Lily" of the English stage, and inspired a Texas town to rename iteelf "Langtry." And when she died on the Riviéra in 1929, she presaged the death of a social era.