Contents

Epigraph

List of Illustrations

 

Prologue

1. The Curious Cast of Marie’s Early Life

2. Freaks, Fakes and Frog-Eaters: An Education in Entertainment

3. The King and I: Modeller and Mentor at Versailles

4. Courting the Crowds at the People’s Palace

5. Marie and the Mob

6. Model Citizens

7. The Shadow of the Guillotine

8. Hardship and Heartache

9. Love and Money

10. Vide et Crede! The Lyceum Theatre, London

11. Scotland and Ireland 1803–1808

12. ‘Much Genteel Company’

13. Dramas and Dangers 1822–1831

14. ‘An Inventive Genius’: Mrs Jarley, Madame Tussaud and Charles Dickens

15. ‘The Leading Exhibition in the Metropolis’

16. Bringing the Gods Down to Earth

    Epilogue

 

Acknowledgements

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