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Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The Life of Her Late Majesty Queen Anne
Author: The History of the Life and Reign of Her Late Majesty Queen Anne ... Illustrated with a Regular Series of All the Medals that Were Struck to Commemorate the Great Events of this Reign, Etc. [With Plates.]
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Author: An impartial history of the life and reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, ... wherein all the transactions of that memorable period are faithfully compiled from the best authorities
Author: Conyers HARRISONPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest
Author: Agnes StricklandPublisher:
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Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Doomed Queen Anne
Author: Carolyn MeyerPublisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547538863
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A complicated and much-hated Tudor queen tells her side of the story in this engaging novel of Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn was born without great beauty, wealth, or title, but she has blossomed into a captivating young woman—and she knows it. Determined to rise to the top, she uses her wiles to win the heart of England’s most powerful man, King Henry VIII. Not satisfied with the king’s heart, however, she persuades Henry to defy everyone—including his own wife—to make her his new queen. But Anne’s ambition would prove to be her fatal flaw. Named a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, among other honors, Doomed Queen Anne is part of the historical fiction Young Royals series that has illuminated the youthful lives of Europe’s most compelling—and sometimes, infamous—queens and princesses.
Behind the Mask
Author: Matthew DennisonPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250033950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. His narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but ‘open' marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), and through Vita's literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst. The book tells how, from her privileged world of the aristocracy, Sackville-West brought her penchant for costume, play-acting and rebellion to the artistic vanguard of modern Britain. Dennison is the acclaimed author of many books including a biography of Queen Victoria. Here, in the first biography to be written of Vita for thirty years, he reveals the whole story and gets behind ‘the beautiful mask' of Vita's public achievements to reveal an often troubled persona which heroically resisted compromise on every level. Drawing on wideranging sources and the extensive letters that sustained her marriage, this is a compelling story of love, loss and jealousy, of high-life and low points, of binding affection and illicit passion – a portrait of an extraordinary, 20th-century life.
Queen of Our Times
Author: Robert HardmanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 164313910X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
The definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by a renowned royal biographer. As seen on Good Morning America, CNN, and the BBC Shy but with a steely self-confidence; inscrutable despite ten decades in the public eye; unflappable; devout; indulgent; outwardly reserved, inwardly passionate; unsentimental; inquisitive; young at heart. Even with her recent passing at age ninety-six, she remains a twenty-first century global phenomenon commanding unrivalled respect and affection. Sealed off during the greatest peacetime emergency of modern times, she has stuck to her own maxim: "I have to be seen to be believed." Robert Hardman, one of Britain’s most acclaimed royal biographers, now wraps up the full story of one of the undisputed greats in a thousand years of monarchy. Hardman distills Elizabeth's complex life into a must-read study of dynastic survival and renewal. It is a portrait of a world leader who remains as intriguing today as the day she came to the Throne at age twenty-five. With peerless access to members of the Royal Family, staff, friends, and royal records, Queen of Our Times brings fresh insights and scholarship to the modern royal story. There will be no more thorough, more readable, more original book on Elizabeth II as we celebrate a life and reign that, surely, will never be equaled.
The Act of Tonnage and Poundage, and Rates of Merchandise ...
Author: Great BritainPublisher:
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Lives of the Queens of England
Author: Agnes StricklandPublisher:
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Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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The Autobiography of Mr. Bradlaugh
Author: Charles BradlaughPublisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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