Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IT would seem from the variety of publications con cerning her that there is still a flicker of public interest with regard to Lady Hester Stanhope, and so it has seemed well to members of her family that the book written about her by my mother, and privately circulated, should now be given to the public as the authoritative biography of this strange.