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Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired 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 self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman.

Con 29 años, a Patricia Pólvora le dijeron que acabaría en una silla de ruedas y que lo mejor que podía hacer era prejubilarse. Le acababan de diagnosticar una enfermedad crónica: artritis reumatoide, una dolencia autoinmune cuya causa se desconoce y que, al contrario que la artritis común...