“She wrote among much else one celebrated novel … She personally saved at least a dozen people from the French revolutionary guillotine. She reinvented Parisian millinery with her astonishing multicolored turbans. She dramatically dismissed Jane Austen as ‘vulgaire.’ She snubbed Napoleon at a reception. … And she once completely outtalked the poet Coleridge at a soirée in Mayfair. For these things alone she should be remembered.”