1928. There are few more singular love stories in the records of the great, and the author restores the picture of Mary Anne Disraeli in this book, incidentally throwing a new and agreeable light on the most baffling and enigmatic figure in the annals of British statesmanship. Her personality was one of extravagance and levities of speech and action. She was considered gauche, but her husband never strayed and made her the object of a constant and knightly attention. A wonderful story of the lifestyle and way of things in the early 1800s.