Mr and Mrs Disraeli

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<p>He was a debt-ridden dandy, a mid-ranking novelist armed with enormous political ambition.</p><p>She was a moneyed widow twelve years older than her new husband, always overdressed for society dinners and never one to hold her tongue.</p><p>From the outset, Mary Anne and Benjamin Disraeli made an unlikely match, yet they rose to the very pinnacle of Victorian society.</p><p>Drawing on the couple's love letters and Mary Anne's own formidable archives, Daisy Hay reveals the heady mix of romance and power that fuelled their influence - and chronicles how the Disraelis crafted their unconventional marriage into an enduring love story.</p>

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Daisy Hay was born in Oxford in 1981. She is the author of<i>Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives</i>, for which she was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy and highly commended by the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has a BA and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Romantic and Sentimental Literature from the University of York. In 2009-10 she was the Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antonys College, Oxford and in 2010-12 she held a visiting scholarship at Wolfson College, Oxford. In 2012-13 she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. She is currently a Lecturer in English Literature and Archival Studies at the University of Exeter, and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. She lives in Devon.

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