The Trials of the King of Hampshire : Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England (Hardcover)

from LauraBrook

I can't imagine a better source than this for the life of the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth. Ms. Foyster has done an excellent, admirable, and completely thorough job in researching this book, this story, this time, this man. This is an incredibly readable and fascinating story that has changed and enha...

from Karen.Helfrick

I won an ARC of this biography through the LibraryThing Early Reviewer's group. I put this one off a little bit. I had so many other books I had to get through and this one looked intimidating. But after a week or two I felt guilty, like I was avoiding a really nice person who didn't mean to be a...

from bookjen

Fascinating and tragic. Those are the two words that continually came to mind while reading Elizabeth Foyster's account of the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth's life. Was he insane? In today's world, obviously not. But with the nonexistent understanding of Autism (my opinion of him, not the author's as sh...

from TheFlamingoReads

What happens when society thinks that you are mentally ill but you may not be? That's the basic premise of this fascinating look at the life of the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth. Standards of mental competence have changed since his day (18 December 1767 - 14 July 1853) but family greed and bitterness p...

from CInacio

I really enjoyed learning about the Earl of Portsmouth and his entire life story. My only setback (which was perhaps my fault) was that I was expecting historical fiction written in a more modern form, whereas this was a thorough history in documentary form. I find documentaries a bit long and bo...