Author: Savile Club (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Savile Club, 1868 to 1923
Author: Savile Club (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clubs
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Savile Club, 1868 to 1923
Author: The Savile Club, 1868 to 1923
Author: Savile Club, LondonThe Savile Club, 1868-1958
Author: Behind Closed Doors
Author: Seth Alexander ThévozPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 147214645X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealing how while the clubs may have been products of their city and country, they also exerted significant influence on London, Britain and places far beyond. This is a chronicle, as informative as it is entertaining, of the ups and downs of London clubland, and how it had an impact on parts of the world far from London. It is packed with amusing anecdotes and illustrative examples of the growth of this quirky, unique institution, which grew to spread around the world. London, though, with its four hundred clubs, was always at its heart. Thévoz reveals how everything we might have thought we knew about these clubs is wrong. They may have started out as white, male, aristocratic watering holes - but that's only part of the story. All sections of society built their own clubs and lived their lives there: highbrow and lowbrow; women and men; working-class, middle-class and upper-class; international and British. The club has been central to a distinctively British form of leisure over more than three centuries. Behind Closed Doors is a distillation of a decade of research and writing on London clubs, based on exclusive behind-the-scenes access to archives and proceedings, as well as a love of gossip and scandal.
The Savile Club, 1868-1958
Author: Savile ClubThe Savile Club, 1868-1958
Author: Savile Club (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Yeats's Worlds
Author: David PiercePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063233
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
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Writers, Readers, and Reputations
Author: Philip WallerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199541205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Philip Waller explores the literary world in which the modern best-seller first emerged, with writers promoted as stars and celebrities, advertising both products and themselves.
The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914
Author: William C. LubenowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521572132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This book offers a highly engaging history of the world's most famous secret society, the Cambridge 'Apostles', based upon the lives, careers and correspondence of the 255 Apostles elected to the Cambridge Conversazione Society between 1820 and 1914. It examines the way in which the Apostles recruited their membership, the Society's discussions and its intellectual preoccupations. From its pages emerge such figures as F. D. Maurice, John Sterling, John Mitchell Kemble, Richard Trench, Fenton Hort, James Clerk Maxwell, Henry Sidgwick, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes. The careers of these and many other leading Apostles are traced, through parliament, government, letters, and in public school and university reform. The book also makes an important contribution in discussing the role of liberalism, imagination and friendship at the intersection of the life of learning and public life. This is a major contribution to the intellectual and social history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to the history of the University of Cambridge. It demonstrates in impressive depth just how and why the Apostles forged original themes in modern intellectual life.