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Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Petticoat Government, in a letter to the Court Ladies. By the author of the Post-Angel
Author: Bibliotheca Somersetensis: County books, Bath excepted. L-Z. General index
Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
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Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Bibliotheca Somersetensis, a catalogue of books, pamphlets [&c.] connected with Somerset
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Author: Emanuel GreenPetticoat-government, a letter to the court ladies, by the author of The Post-angel [J. Dunton].
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Author: John DuntonA Selection of Choice and Valuable Old Books ... Offered for Sale with Prices Affixed, Selected from the Stock of Pickering & Chatto, Ltd. ...
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Pickering & ChattoCatalogue
Author: Dobell, P.J. & A.E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Queen Anne
Author: Anne SomersetPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030796289X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 871
Book Description
She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain’s future naval and colonial supremacy. While the Queen’s military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attention—indeed her realm—rested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment. At the core of Anne Somerset’s riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England (“Definitive”—London Evening Standard; “Wonderfully pacy and absorbing”—Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Anne—reserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen’s great general—beautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught background—the revolution that deposed Anne’s father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestant—her parents’ conversion to Catholicism had grave implications—and she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines “wicked and dangerous”) . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil war—the much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I (“Exhilarating”—The Spectator; “Ample, stylish, eloquent”—The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne’s favor, how her replacement, Sarah’s cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation. To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material. Queen Anne is history on a large scale—a revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch.
Betwixt and Between
Author: Brenda AyresPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Betwixt and Between identifies the biases, errors and ambiguities that have run rampant in the biographies on Mary Wollstonecraft, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Brenda Ayres investigates the agenda, problems and strengths of eighteen critical biographies, beginning with William Godwin’s Memoirs (1798), ending with Charlotte Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws (2015) and including ten lesser-known biographies. Betwixt and Between synthesizes the biographies, exposes gaps and contradictions, and attempts to fill and reconcile them, supplying in the process considerable information on Wollstonecraft that has never before been published.
John Dunton and the English Book Trade
Author: Stephen ParksPublisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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