DEFINING MISTRESS - VICTORIA GRIFFIN QUOTES PENELOPE ORTH

"Penelope Orth, in her book published in the early 1970s about contemporary American mistresses, draws up the following definition: "A mistress is a single woman, divorced, widowed, or never married, who is having an enduring affair with a married man who may support her but who today more frequently subsidises her or merely improves her standard of living. The three essential ingredients of a lover-mistress relationship are that it lasts, that marriage is not realistically expected, and that the man assumes some financial responsibility."

PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE : SPENDTHRIFTY GOLD DIGGER : MISTRESS OF THE MONTH

PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE : SPENDTHRIFTY GOLD DIGGER : MISTRESS OF THE MONTH

EMMA MARGUERITE "PEGGY" UPTON

First posted on April 5th 2010

PEGGY was THE MOST PUBLICIZED MISTRESS - COURTESAN OF THE 1920's and 1030's. She was introduced to Florenz Ziegfeld, who owned the famous showgirl venue New Amsterdam Theatre, by a dressmaker to fashionable ladies, Madame Frances, and her career began. She was a heartbreaker and international celebrity, perhaps the first famous to be famous woman of the 20th century. She was known for her spendthrifty ways as well as a steamy sex life. Was Peggy ruthless and sociopathic? Or did she simply decide at a young age that she would do well, beyond her childhood as the daughter of a Norfolk barber?

She had three multimillionaire husbands. And a great number of generous patrons. She came to own one of the largest blue diamonds known to the world in her time.

 
I'll be quoting from the book GOLD DIGGER by Constance Rosenblum, on this blog. The link to the New York Times book review is at the title above.

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