An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age the first selfinvented international social celebrity. Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A ravenhaired Andalusian who performed her scandalous Spider Dance in the greatest performance halls across Europe she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty sexuality and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor a selfinve