Born of peasant stock in 1765, her beauty brought Emma to the attention of the upper classes while warbling and dancing in very little on behalf of a quack doctor selling Nervous Aethereal Balsam [8].

History remembers her, not for her remembering history, for her adulterous love-affair with Lord Horatio Nelson.

She was iridescent and courageous into her old age. Her figure inspired more artists of her age than any other woman -- tall, athletic, irresistably sweet and trusting, with a ready smile, and in 1794 drawing from the crusty old Lord Bristol the exclamation: "God Almighty must have been in a glorious mood when he made you!" [viii]