Thompson, Brian, — The Disastrous Mrs. Weldon.

NY, Doubleday, (2001). 1st US ed 1ptg. VG in VG DJ. Born to fanatically snobbish parents, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. Her scandalous. affair with a married man & her defiant marriage to an unprosperous hussar officer were the first signs she was no ordinary girl. Georgina took in a menagerie of animals & orphans & had a string of lovers, male & female. When her parents tried to commit her to a mental institution, she won the legal right to represent herself & sued her persecutors & helped to overturn England's lunacy laws which allowed patients to be committed against their will without proper medical examination.