Author: Marguerite Countess of BlessingtonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Works of Lady Blessington ...
Author: Marguerite Countess of BlessingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Works of Lady Blessington: The two friends. The repealers. Confessions of an elderly gentleman
Author: Marguerite Countess of BlessingtonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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The Works of Lady Blessington: Confessions of an elderly lady. The victims of society. Conversations with Lord Byron. The honey-moon. Galeria. Flowers of loveliness. Gems of beauty
Author: Marguerite Countess of BlessingtonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
Author: Susan MatoffPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 161149592X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonnière and author. This study enriches our knowledge of the social, political, and literary history of the post-Romantic and early Victorian era. It examines Lady Blessington’s close friendships with politicians and writers, especially Edward Bulwer Lytton and Benjamin Disraeli. Statesmen, diplomats, writers, and artists were her constant visitors, as they found her friendship and conversation invaluable to their professional and social lives. The circumstances of a life lived in luxury and indulgence changed upon the death of Lady Blessington’s husband, forcing her to support herself and several dependents with her writing. Throughout this biography, Lady Blessington’s voice is evident and should reawaken scholarly and popular interest in her voluminous works. She wrote twenty novels in genres including silver-fork fiction, psychological drama, and verse narrative. She also produced four travel books, many short stories, and numerous poems and edited the popular literary gift annuals Heath’s Book of Beauty and The Keepsake. This book reveals the humanity of a woman whom contemporary gossip considered scandalous because of her alleged relationship with her stepdaughter’s estranged husband, Count D’Orsay. Lady Blessington’s struggle in the face of many challenges is an inspiring story of individual strength. It is a tale of a woman whose legacy of integrity, determination, and sheer hard work provides us with enlarged insights into an era and society often overlooked by history.
Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron
Author: Ernest J. Lovell Jr.Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400875846
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Based upon the London edition of 1834, this text uses a copy annotated, underlined, and marginally marked by Byron's last mistress, Countess Teresa Guiccioli. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
Author: Aneta LipskaPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086793
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington’s four travel books: ‘A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820’ (1822), ‘Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris in 1821’ (1822), ‘The Idler in Italy’ (1839) and ‘The Idler in France’ (1841). It argues that travelling and travel writing provided Blessington with endless opportunities to reshape her public personae, demonstrating that her predilection for self-fashioning was related to the various tendencies in tourism and literature as well as the changing aesthetic and social trends in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington
Author: Richard Robert MaddenPublisher:
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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the literary life and correspondence of the countless of blessington
Author: r.r. madden, m.r.i.a.Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Byron
Author: Fiona MacCarthyPublisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1444799878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
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