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Category : Diamond Necklace Affair, France, 1785
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Authentic Adventures of the Celebrated Countess de La Motte
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Category : Diamond Necklace Affair, France, 1785
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Authentic Adventures of the Celebrated Countess de la Motte. Including the Fraudulent Transaction with Cardinal de Rohan. Translated from the French. To which is Added, a Narrative of Her Escape to London, as Stated by Herself. Also Memoirs of Her Sister, Under the Character of Marianne
Author: Countess Jeanne de La MottePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Authentic Adventures of the Celebrated Countess de la Motte. Including the Fraudulent Transaction with Cardinal de Rohan. Translated from the French. To which is Added, a Narrative of Her Escape to London, as Stated by Herself. Also Memoirs of Her Sister, Under the Character of Marianne
Author: Countess Jeanne de La MottePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales
Author: Michael J. MulryanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611487714
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an absolutist regime. The state imprisons such renegades not just out of a desire to protect the public but more importantly to protect the state itself. Hence, prison escape tales can be linked with a revolutionary tendency: when free, such former detainees equipped with a pen openly and justly challenge the status quo, hoping to inspire their readers to do the same. Escape tales have had a considerable impact on cultural identity, because they embody the interdependent relationship between literature and myth on the one hand and literature and history on the other.
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Notes and Queries
Author: The Siblys of London
Author: Susan SommersPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190687339
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.
The Monthly Review
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Catalogue of the Private Library of Mr. George S. Davis
Author: George S. DavisPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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