Author: William Henry WilkinsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, the Story of Her Life, Told in Part by Herself and in Part by W. H. Wilkins
Author: William Henry WilkinsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The romance of Isabel lady Burton, the story of her life, told in part by herself, and in part by W.H. Wilkins
Author: Lady Isabel BurtonThe Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life (Complete)
Author: Isabel Lady BurtonPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465603204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
Lady Burton began her autobiography a few months before she died, but in consequence of rapidly failing health she made little progress with it. After her death, which occurred in the spring of last year, it seemed good to her sister and executrix, Mrs. Fitzgerald, to entrust the unfinished manuscript to me, together with sundry papers and letters, with a view to my compiling the biography. Mrs. Fitzgerald wished me to undertake this work, as I had the good fortune to be a friend of the late Lady Burton, and one with whom she frequently discussed literary matters; we were, in fact, thinking of writing a romance together, but her illness prevented us. The task of compiling this book has not been an easy one, mainly for two reasons. In the first place, though Lady Burton published comparatively little, she was a voluminous writer, and she left behind her such a mass of letters and manuscripts that the sorting of them alone was a formidable task. The difficulty has been to keep the book within limits. In the second place, Lady Burton has written the Life of her husband; and though in that book she studiously avoided putting herself forward, and gave to him all the honour and the glory, her life was so absolutely bound up with his, that of necessity she covered some of the ground which I have had to go over again, though not from the same point of view. So much has been written concerning Sir Richard Burton that it is not necessary for me to tell again the story of his life here, and I have therefore been able to write wholly of his wife, an equally congenial task. Lady Burton was as remarkable as a woman as her husband was as a man. Her personality was as picturesque, her individuality as unique, and, allowing for her sex, her life was as full and varied as his. It has been my aim, wherever possible, throughout this book to let Lady Burton tell the story of her life in her own words, and keep my narrative in the background. To this end I have revised and incorporated the fragment of autobiography which was cut short by her death, and I have also pieced together all her letters, manuscripts, and journals which have a bearing on her travels and adventures. I have striven to give a faithful portrait of her as revealed by herself. In what I have succeeded, the credit is hers alone: in what I have failed, the fault is mine, for no biographer could have wished for a more eloquent subject than this interesting and fascinating woman. Thus, however imperfectly I may have done my share of the work, it remains the record of a good and noble life—a life lifted up, a life unique in its self-sacrifice and devotion.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
Author: Isabel Wilkins, W.H. BurtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732659321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton by Isabel Burton, W.H. Wilkins
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
Author: Lady Isabel BurtonPublisher:
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Illustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday
Author: McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, ChicagoPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Hajj
Author: Eric TagliacozzoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703051X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Scholars from a range of fields tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar. This volume pays attention to the diverse aspects of the Hajj, as lived every year by hundreds of millions of Muslims worldwide.
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