A hardcover edition of The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon: The Life, Loves, and Lawsuits of a Legendary Victorian was published in 2001 by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. It was originally published in the United Kingdom as A Monkey Among Crocodiles: The Eccentric Life of Georgina Weldon by HarperCollins Publishers UK.

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First Broadway Books trade paperback edition published 2002

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:

Thompson, Brian (Brian John William)

[Monkey among crocodiles]

The disastrous Mrs. Weldon: the life, loves, and lawsuits of a legendary Victorian / Brian Thompson.— 1st ed.    p.  cm.

Originally published as: A monkey among crocodiles. 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Weldon, Georgina, 1837–1914. 2. Great Britain—Biography. I. Title.

CT788.W46 T48 2001

941.08'092—dc21

[B]  00-034032

eISBN: 978-0-7679-1124-5

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