The Primadonna

by John Timbs

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Genres: Classics

238 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1908

About the author

John Timbs was an English antiquary. He was educated at a private school at Hemel Hempstead, and in his sixteenth year apprenticed to a druggist and printer at Dorking. He had early shown literary capacity, and when nineteen began to write for the Monthly Magazine. A year later he became secretary to Sir Richard Phillips, its proprietor, and permanently adopted literature as a profession.

He was successively editor of the Mirror of Literature, the Harlequin, The Literary World, and sub-editor of the Illustrated London News. He was also founder and first editor of Year-Book of Science and Art. His published works amounted to more than one hundred and fifty volumes. In 1834 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Reviews

[Dorcas]

A continuation of Fair Margaret, Primadonna being the second in a trilogy, (the last being "The Diva's Ruby").

In The Primadonna, Margaret Donn, otherwise known as madam Cordova is a successful artist in the height of her fame. One night there is an explosion in the theater and people trample to get out. In the middle of the chaos a woman is murdered and blame is passed from man to man.

It's a bit of a mystery in finding out the truth of what happened that night and who is innocent. Also ever present in the Primadonna's mind is when and whether to risk matrimony.