Author: Aaron BurrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe
Author: Aaron BurrThe Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe
Author: Aaron BurrThe Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe, with Selections from His Correspondence
Author: Aaron BurrPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368944541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Governess
Author: Ruth BrandonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the family, not servants, yet not equals. To become a governess, observed Jane Austen in Emma, was to "retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever." However, in an ironic paradox, the governess, so marginal to her society, was central to its fiction-partly because governessing was the fate of some exceptionally talented women who later wrote novels based on their experiences. But personal experience was only one source, and writers like Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry James, and Jane Austen all recognized that the governess's solitary figure, adrift in the world, offered more novelistic scope than did the constrained and respectable wife. Ruth Brandon weaves literary and social history with details from the lives of actual governesses, drawn from their letters and journals, to craft a rare portrait of real women whose lives were in stark contrast to the romantic tales of their fictional counterparts. Governess will resonate with the many fans of Jane Austen and the Brontës, whose novels continue to inspire films and books, as well as fans of The Nanny Diaries and other books that explore the longstanding tension between mothers and the women they hire to raise their children.
The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe; with Selections from His Correspondence. Edited by Matthew L. Davis
Author: Aaron BURR (Vice-President of the United State of America.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 143, no. 2, 1999)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422372685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
War of Two
Author: John SedgwickPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1592409695
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. Why would two such men risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge? In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing conflict between Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Matching each other’s ambition and skill as lawyers in New York, they later battled for power along political fault lines that would decide—and define—the future of the United States. A series of letters between Burr and Hamilton suggests the duel was fought over an unflattering comment made at a dinner party. But another letter, written by Hamilton the night before the event, provides critical insight into his true motivation. It was addressed to former Speaker of the House Theodore Sedgwick, a trusted friend of both men, and the author’s own ancestor. John Sedgwick suggests that Hamilton saw Burr not merely as a personal rival but as a threat to the nation. It was a fear that would prove justified after Hamilton’s death... INCLUDES COLOR IMAGES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Aaron Burr in Exile
Author: Jane MerrillPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786494913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and acquitted of treason charges in 1807, and thereafter departed for self-imposed exile in Europe, his political career in ruins. Adrift in Paris for 15 months, he led a marginal existence on the run from creditors and the courts, getting by on handouts. While other Americans in Paris enjoyed official status that insulated them from life in the capital, Burr dreamed up fruitless schemes and pawned his possessions, yet remained in high spirits, enjoying Parisian theater and cafes. He shopped, flirted, paid for sex and associated with friends old and new while gathering the resolve to return to America. Burr's Paris journal is a rare item, with only 250 unexpurgated copies printed in 1903. In it he relates his fascinating stories and describes Parisian life at the height of Napoleon's power. Drawing on Burr's journal and other sources, this book provides a self-portrait of the down-and-out Founding Father abroad.
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of New York
Author: William MenziesPublisher: New York : [s.n.], 1875 (Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell)
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Lives of the Great Romantics, Part III
Author: Betty T BennettPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000743780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.