Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamsonâs Monte Carlo

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004433922_005

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When Alice Williamsonâs novel The Guests of Hercules appeared in 1912, Monte Carlo had become the international hub of the gambling world. By then Williamson was at the height of her fame as a writer of popular fictions that drew substantially on her travels abroad. Living for many years in Monte Carlo and herself a modest gambler, she was well placed to portray the gambling society of the Belle Epoque. Within the parameters of popular romance fiction, Williamsonâs story gives a vivid picture of the sumptuous casino and the mammonistic hedonism of its Belle Epoque clientele.

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Women Writing on the French Riviera

Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970

Series:Â Faux Titre, Volume: 442

Cover Women Writing on the French Riviera

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Print Publication Date:: 05 Jun 2020

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