Author: David Gardner WilliamsPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The Royal Society of Literature and the Patronage of George IV
Author: David Gardner WilliamsPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
George IV
Author: Christopher HibbertPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250102790
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending on his homes, his clothes, and his women; his patronage of the arts; his 'illegal' marriage to Catholic Mrs Fitzherbert, and lesser known facts such as his generous charity donations andhis witty one-liners, including one he uttered when he met his bride-to-be (Caroline of Brunswick) for the first time: 'Harris, I am not well, fetch me a brandy.' George IV was the son of George III (whowent insane and inspired 'The Madness of King George') and was the founder of the prestigiousKing's College in London.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
Author: Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Royal Society of Literature
Author: Isabel QuiglyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Prospectus
Author: American Society for the Diffusion of Useful KnowledgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Author: Dwight's American Magazine
Author: Theodore DwightGeorge IV (Penguin Monarchs)
Author: Stella TillyardPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141978864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.
The Imperial Magazine;
Author: Samuel DrewGeorge IV
Author: E.A. SmithPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300184239
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch’s character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king’s contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler who was responsible for the decline of the power and reputation of the monarchy in the early nineteenth century. Now E.A. Smith offers a new view of George IV, one that does not minimize the king’s faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts. Smith explores the roots of the king’s character and personality, stressing the importance of his relationship with his parents and twelve surviving siblings. He examines the king’s important contributions to the cultural enhancement of his capital and his encouragement of the major artistic, literary, and scholarly figures of his time. He reassesses the king’s role as constitutional monarch, contending that it was he, rather than Victoria and Albert, who created the constitutional monarchy of nineteenth-century Britain and began the revival of its popularity. Smith’s biography not only illuminates the character of one of the most colorful of Britain’s rulers but also contributes to the history of the British monarchy and its role in the nation’s life.