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Rebecca Cope On Friday 21 May, the British Library in association with HistFest will digitally host ‘Outrageous Women: The Remarkable Lives of Elizabeth Chudleigh and Caroline Norton’, streamed via video. The writers will be in conversation with fellow author Hallie Rubenhold, as they discuss two women who defied society’s conventions to fearlessly forge their own paths. Read next Anne Boleyn actress Jodie Turner-Smith dubs Megxit a 'missed opportunity for the monarchy' 'It was not al...

With Lady Antonia Fraser and Catherine Ostler in conversation with Hallie Rubenhold This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time. The stories of two women who refused to be defined by society’s expectations. Award winning historian Antonia Fraser introduces Caroline Norton, a 19th-century poet and pamphleteer who became a pioneering women’s rights activist at a time when married women and their children were considered their husband’s property. ...

The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler Elizabeth Chudleigh is best known today for being convicted of bigamy at an “explosive trial” in 1776, said Marcus Field in the London Evening Standard. Yet as Catherine Ostler’s impeccably researched biography reveals, her life was “jaw-dropping” right the way through. Born in 1721, she was the daughter of a minor aristocrat who died when she was five. Aged 22, she secured an entrée into high society when she was appointed maid of honour to the Princess of Wales. Beautiful, ambitious and witty in equal measure, Elizabeth once wore a flesh-c...

Rating: In 1776, Elizabeth Chudleigh, former royal lady-in-waiting and dedicated party girl, found herself fighting for her freedom and reputation in front of the House of Lords.  She had been summoned to defend herself against the charge of bigamy. Dressed for drama, and modelling her look on that of the tragic Mary Queen of Scots two centuries earlier, ‘the Duchess Countess’ as she was popularly known, played the role of tragic heroine to perfection.  Tickets for the court went on sale, and the newspapers devoted more column inches to the scandal than to the on-going American war of ...