COMPANION TO LODGE'S PORTRAITS. 



New and Cheaper Edition, with considerable additions, now publishing in Six 

 Monthly Parts, price 7s. 6d. each. 



MEMOIRS OF THE BEAUTIES 



THE COURT OF CHARLES II. 



WITH AV 



INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE STATE OF FEMALE SOCIETY, 



AND ITS INFLUENCE, DURING THAT REMARKABLE REIGN, 



BY MRS. JAMESON, 



Authoress of " Characteristics of Women," $c. 



COMPRISING A SERIES OF TWENTY-ONE SPLENDID PORTRAITS, 

 Illustrating the Diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, Clarendon, and other contemporary 

 writers of that gay and interesting period, engraved by the most distinguished 

 artists, from Drawings made by order of her late Koyal Highness 



Charlotte. 



mess the Princess 



The following is a brief descriptive List of the Portraits comprised in this Work 

 which supplies what has long been a desideratum in the fine arts, and forms a desir- 

 able Companion to k< Lodge s Portraits." 



CATHERINE OF BHAGANZA, the unhappy 

 and slighted wife of Charles. 



LADY CASTLEMAINE, afterwards Duchess 

 of Cleveland, the haughty enslaver of the 

 monarch. 



LA BELLE HAMILTON, Countess De Gram- 

 mont, one of the ancestors of the Jerning- 

 ham family. 



The gentle and blameless COUNTESS OF 

 OSSORY, interesting from her beauty, her 

 tenderness, and her feminine virtues. 



NELL GWYNN, merry and open-hearted, 

 who, with all her faults, was at least ex- 

 empt from the courtly vice of hypocrisy. 



The beautiful and wealthy DUCHESS OF 

 SOMERSET, the wife of three successive 

 husbands, one of whom encountered a 

 tragical fate. 



The noted FRANCES STEWART, Duchess of 

 Richmond, whose marriage was the im- 

 mediate cause of Lord Clarendon's dis- 

 grace. 



Miss LAWSON, mild and gentle, yet oppo- 

 sing the fortitude of virtue to the perils of 

 a licentious Court. 



The COUNTESS OF CHESTERFIELD, one of 

 the fair principals of De Grammont's cele- 

 brated story of the " bas verts." 



The COUNTESS OF SOUTHESK, whose faults, 

 follies, and miseries constitute a tale well 

 fitted to " point a moral." 



The interesting and exemplary COUNTESS 

 OF ROCHESTER. 



The beauteous and arrogant LADY DEN- 

 HAM, interesting from the poetical fame 

 of her husband, and her own tragical fate. 



The magnificent LADY BELLASYS, renown- 

 ed for her beauty, wit, and spirit. 



MRS. NOTT, fair, sentimental, and Madonna- 

 like. 



ANNE DIGBY, Countess of Sutherland, beau- 

 tiful and blameless, the friend of the an- 

 gelic Lady Russell, and of the excellent 

 Evelyn. 



The fair Coquette, MRS. MIDDLETON. 



Miss BAGOT, the irreproachable wife of two 

 libertine Lords. 



The fair, the elegant, and fascinating Miss 

 JENNINGS, who robbed the men of their 

 hearts, the women of their lovers, and 

 never lost herself." 



The DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH, one of the 

 most absolute of Royal favourites. 



The COUNTESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND, dis- 

 tinguished for her uncommon grace and 

 beauty, and the blameless tenour of her 

 life. 



'And the DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE, fair, 

 kind, and true, and wedded to a Noble- 

 man, who, to the valour and bearing of a 

 paladin of old romance, added the spirit 

 of an ancient Roman. 



