Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Introduction
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton
Author: Diane AtkinsonPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613748833
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Westminster, London, June 22, 1836. Crowds are gathering at the Court of Common Pleas. On trial is Caroline Sheridan Norton, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been maneuvered into marrying the Honorable George Norton when she was just nineteen. Ten years older, he is a dull, violent, and controlling lawyer, but Caroline is determined not to be a traditional wife. By her early twenties, Caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic, and outrageous flirt. Her beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton accuses Caroline and the Prime Minister of “criminal conversation” (adultery) precipitating Victorian England's “scandal of the century.” In Westminster Hall that day is a young Charles Dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalize events as Bardell v. Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. After a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous, and sensational. George is a laughingstock. Angry and humiliated he cuts Caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destitute. Knowing she can not change her brutish husband's mind, Caroline resolves to change the law. Steeped in archival research that draws on more than 1,500 of Caroline's personal letters, The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywhere. For the next thirty years Caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated Victorian society, helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839), and influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act (1857) and the Married Women's Property Act (1870), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first time.
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Letters 200-631
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Letters
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics
Author: Marilyn MorrisPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political arena with the growth of political parties, extra-parliamentary political activities, and a partisan print culture. The public’s preoccupation with the personal character of the ruling elite paralleled a growing interest in the interior lives of individuals in histories, novels, and the theater. Newspaper reports of the royal family intensified in intimacy and its members became moral exemplars—most often, paradoxically, when they misbehaved. Ad hominem attacks on political leaders became commonplace; politicians of all affiliations continued to assess one another’s characters based on their success and daring with women and money. And newly popular human-interest journalism promoted the illusion that the personal characters of public figures could be read by appearances.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts
Author: The Important Collection of Autograph Letters and Documents Formed by John D. Crimmins
Author: John Daniel CrimminsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Catalogue of the important collection of manuscripts, ancient deeds and autograph letters formed by William Salt, esq., F.S.A., deceased. (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge).
Author: William SaltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Linda KellyPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571287158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The first night of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, on 8 May 1777, was one of the great dates in theatrical history. From then on, Sheridan was launched into eighteenth-century society, as much at home in the salons of the Duchess of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales as in the taverns and coffee-houses around Drury Lane. Sheridan's comedies were all written by the time he was twenty-eight. For the next thirty years he was wholly involved in his twin careers as manager of the Drury Lane theatre and Member of Parliament. At a time when politics were dominated by a few aristocratic families, he rose above his poverty to become one of the greatest parliamentary figures of the age. In the theatre, he presided over one of the most brilliant periods in the history of the English stage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Kelly gives a comprehensive picture of Sheridan's tempestuous career and chaotic private life. For all his faults, his charm was irresistible - 'there has been nothing like it since the days of Orpheus,' wrote Byron. It is charm that illuminates her narrative, bringing Sheridan to life. 'I can imagine no better biography of this talented, dynamic, impossibly unreliable firework of a man.' Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph