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Index
Cover
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Copyright
Dedication
AUTHOR’S NOTE
INTRODUCTION: Meeting Mistresses
CHAPTER 1: Love out of Wedlock in the Ancient World
Hagar
Aspasia
Corinna
Dolorosa
CHAPTER 2: Eastern Concubines and Harems
CONCUBINES IN CHINA
Yu-fang
May-ying
CONCUBINES IN JAPAN
Lady Nijo
GEISHA MISTRESSES
HAREM CONCUBINES
Roxelana
Tz’u-hsi
CHAPTER 3: Whose Whore? Europe’s Royal Mistresses
Nell Gwynne
Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour
Jeanne du Barry
Lola Montez
Katharina Schratt
Alice Keppel
Elena Lupescu
Camilla Shand Parker Bowles
CHAPTER 4: Marital Arrangements in Aristocratic Circles
Lady Bess Foster and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Caroline Lamb
Claire Clairmont
Countess Teresa Guiccioli
CHAPTER 5: The Clandestine Consorts of (Un) Celibate Clerics
THE PRIEST’S “HOUSEKEEPER”
PAPAL MISTRESSES
Theodora and Marozia Theophylact
Vanozza d’Arignano and Giulia Farnese
THE MODERN CLERICAL MISTRESS
Annie Murphy
Louise Iushewitz
Pamela Shoop
CHAPTER 6: Conquerors and Their Mistresses
SPANISH CONQUISTADORS AND NATIVE WOMEN
Malinche
“COUNTRY WIVES” IN COLONIAL AMERICA
Sally Fidler, Betsey Sinclair and Margaret Taylor
MISTRESSES IN CONQUERED ASIA
Le Ly Hayslip and Dao Thi Mui
CHAPTER 7: Interracial Sexual Unions Within the “Peculiar Institution”
Phibbah
Julia Chinn
Sally Hemings
Julia Frances Lewis Dickson
Harriet Jacobs
CHAPTER 8: Sexual Unions and the Jewish Question
CONCENTRATION CAMP LIFE BEFORE DEATH
Eleonore Hodys
“PARTISAN” FOREST CAMPS
EVA BRAUN: MISTRESS TO THE AUTHOR OF THE SHOAH
JEW AND GENTILE, BEYOND THE CAMPS
Hannah Arendt
CHAPTER 9: Mistresses as Muses
Héloise
Émilie du Châtelet
Jeanne Hébuterne
George Eliot
Lillian Hellman
Catherine Walston
Joyce Maynard
CHAPTER 10: Mistresses of Men Above the Law
MOBSTER MOLLS
Virginia Hill
Arlyne Brickman
Sandy Sadowsky, Georgia Durante and Shirley Ryce
KREMLIN DOLLS
CASTRO’S COMRADES
Naty Revuelta
Celia Sanchez
CHAPTER 11: Mistresses as Trophy Dolls
Marion Davies
Gloria Swanson
Maria Callas
Marilyn Monroe
Judith Campbell
Vicki Morgan
CHAPTER 12: Fallen Women: Mistresses in Literature
Jane Eyre
Hester Prynne
Emma Bovary
Anna Karenina
Mildred Rogers
Ellen Olenska
Lara
Sarah Miles
Merrion Palmer
CHAPTER 13: The 1960s Transform Marriage and Mistressdom
Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
Lillian Ross
Simone de Beauvoir
Paula
Rachel
Michaela
Conclusion: Mistresses Met
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
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