Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo

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When Alice Williamson’s 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, Williamson’s story gives a vivid picture of the sumptuous casino and the mammonistic hedonism of its Belle Epoque clientele.

Here are some details about Alice Williamson in Wikipedia and the text of The Guests of Hercules is available at Project Gutenberg.