Because I Loved Him — Noel B. Gerson

Marriage certainly didn't hinder Lillie Langtry from becoming the most celebrated courtesan of her time. Nor did it necessarily help. But Lillie was not a woman whose independence could be curbed by mere matrimony. She was the most beautiful woman of her age. She was one of its most renowned actresses, especially in the United States of which she became a citizen. She was a capitalist of such perfect business instinct as to be called a financial genius. She was the world's best-dressed woman. And she was the mistress of many men, some of aristocratic and even royal blood and others whose major distinction in life was the possession, however fleeting of Lillie's affections.