Author: Joseph Fitzgerald MolloyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington
Author: Joseph Fitzgerald MolloyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. Fitzgerald MolloyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331469605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Excerpt from The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington Strange as the statement may seem, it is not less true that no luminous biography of Lady Blessington has been written: strange because her life presents in itself a romance such as facts seldom contain or combine; such as Fate denies to ordinary mortals. Virtue and happiness, beautiful and enviable as they are, afford meagre material for memoirs. It is they whose swift-stirred sympathies and longings for happiness carry them beyond the pale of the commonplace and the bonds of conventionality, whose loves are ill-starred and whose lives are shadowed; they who strive and suffer, who aspire and falter, who possess and present studies that move and fascinate us. Their heart histories appeal from out the past for green places in our memories. Of such was the gifted and beautiful Irishwoman - 'the most gorgeous Lady Blessington' as she was styled by Dr Parr, and as she was known to her intimates - whose biography is here written with an admiration that borders on affection, and with that sympathy which sorrow solicits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Academy and Literature
Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch AppletonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author: An Elegant Madness
Author: Venetia MurrayPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The gilded vulgarity of Britain's most decadent era is profiled in a definitive and dazzling history--with characters as extraordinary as the allegedly incestuous Lord Byron and the famous courtesan, Harriet Wilson. Illustrations.
The Academy
Author: Last of the Dandies
Author: Nick FoulkesPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466864451
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
From his first appearance in London in 1821 until his death in Paris in 1852, Count D'Orsay dominated and scandalized the whole of European society. For three decades he was the ultimate arbiter in matters of taste, style and fashion -- what D'Orsay wore today, society would wear tomorrow. He also enthralled Society with the thirty-year soap opera of his relationship with Lady Blessington, whose daughter he married and with whose husband he was suspected of having had an affair. Bisexual, flamboyant and outrageous, D'Orsay was said to have ruined the cream of British aristocracy. He toured Europe on an enormous spending spree; paid homage to a dying Lord Byron in Italy, set up a racing course in Notting Hill and a gambling den in St James's. Nick Foulkes' Last of the Dandies is a vivid biography of an astonishingly flamboyant figure and a dazzling portrait of an era.
High Society
Author: Venetia MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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