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Author's Note xii
Introduction
Meeting Mistresses xiii
Chapter 1 Love Out of Wedlock in the Ancient World 10
Hagar 11
Aspasia 13
Corinna 19
Dolorosa 28
Chapter 2 Eastern Concubines and Harems 34
Concubines in China 34
Yu-fang 38
May-ying 39
Concubines in Japan 44
Lady Nijo 46
Geisha Mistresses 48
Harem Concubines 53
Roxelana 53
Tz'u-hsi 59
Chapter 3 Whose Whore? Europe's Royal Mistresses 71
Nell Gwynne 72
Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour 77
Jeanne du Barry 83
Lola Montez 88
Katharina Schratt 91
Alice Keppel 96
Elena Lupescu 99
Camilla Parker-Bowles 106
Chapter 4 Marital Arrangements in Aristocratic Circles 115
Lady Bess Foster and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 115
Lady Caroline Lamb 123
Claire Clairmont 130
Countess Teresa Guiccioli 135
Chapter 5 The Clandestine Consorts of (Un) Celibate Clerics 144
The Priest's "Housekeeper" 147
Papal Mistresses 153
Theodora and Marozia Theophylact 153
Vanozza d'Arignano and Giulia Farnese 156
The Modern Clerical Mistress 161
Annie Murphy 164
Louise Iusewicz 169
Pamela Shoop 172
Chapter 6 Conquerors and Their Mistresses 176
Spanish Conquistadors and Native Women I76
Malinche 176
"Country Wives" in Colonial America 183
Sally Fidler, Betsey Sinclair and Margaret Taylor 187
Mistresses in Conquered Asia 190
Le Ly Hayslip and Dao Thi Mui 191
Chapter 7 Interracial Sexual Unions Within the "Peculiar Institution" 195
Phibbah 197
Julia Chinn 202
Sally Hemings 204
Julia Frances Lewis Dickson 208
Harriet Jacobs 215
Chapter 8 Sexual Unions and the Jewish Question 225
Concentration Camp Life Before Death 227
Eleanore Hodys 234
"Partisan" Forest Camps 236
Eva Braun: Mistress to the Author of the Shoah 238
Jew and Gentile, Beyond the Camps 249
Hannah Arendt 249
Chapter 9 Mistresses as Muses 258
Héloise 259
Émilie du Châtelet 264
Jeanne Hébuterne 271
George Eliot 275
Lillian Hellman 284
Catherine Walston 293
Joyce Maynard 304
Chapter 10 Mistresses of Men Above the Law 313
Mobster Molls 313
Virginia Hill 313
Arlyne Brickman 320
Sandy Sadowsky, Georgia Durante and Shirley Ryce 323
Kremlin Dolls 326
Castro's Comrades 327
Naty Revuelta 328
Celia Sanchez 339
Chapter 11 Mistresses as Trophy Dolls 344
Marion Davies 344
Gloria Swanson 359
Maria Callas 366
Marilyn Monroe 377
Judith Campbell 388
Vicki Morgan 393
Chapter 12 Fallen Women: Mistresses in Literature 401
Jane Eyre 401
Hester Prynne 404
Emma Bovary 408
Anna Karenina 413
Mildred Rogers 415
Ellen Olenska 419 Lara 423
Sarah Miles 427
Merrion Palmer 429
Chapter 13 The 1960s Transform Marriage and Mistressdom 433
Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman 435
Lillian Ross 439
Simone de Beauvoir 442
Paula 448
Rachel 451
Michaela 454
Conclusion: Mistresses Met 458
Endnotes 465
Acknowledgments 495
Index 497
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