Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Introduction
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart
Author: Christopher SmartPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809316090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart’s prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while his verses were bequests, gifts in which he set great store. Indeed, it was Smart’s lifelong conviction that he was a poet of major importance. As Smart biographer Karina Williamson notes, "The splendidly informative and vivaciously written accounts of the circumstances surrounding each letter, or group of letters, add up to what is in effect a miniature biography."
Queen of the Courtesans
Author: Barbara WhitePublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Fanny Murray was an incomparable Georgian beauty and the most desired courtesan of the 1750s. The daughter of an impoverished musician from Bath, she took London society by storm, not only as the most prized 'purchaseable beauty' of her day, but also as a fashion icon and muse to poets, writers and artists. She counted princes, aristocrats and politicians among her friends and lovers, but relished the company of rogues, fraudsters and ne'er-do-wells. Barbara White presents evidence to suggest that Fanny Murray participated spiritedly in the sexual antics of the notorious 'Monks of Medmenham', the most infamous of the Hell-fire Clubs. After she retired from prostitution, Fanny Murray reinvented herself, entering a pragmatic marriage with the Scottish actor David Ross. Surprisingly, her virtues as a devoted and faithful wife became almost proverbial. Even so, Murray could not escape her disreputable past. In 1763, a scurrilous poem dedicated to her caused a national scandal that ended in the infamous trial of the radical politician John Wilkes for obscene libel. Barbara White's portrait of Fanny Murray takes readers from the brothels of Covent Garden to sex romps at Medmenham Abbey, from refined drawing rooms in London to marital respectability in Edinburgh. This is an illuminating contribution to the scholarly understanding and popular appreciation of a complex and intriguing period of British history. Fanny Murray's triumph – against almost insuperable odds – is a remarkable story, as rich in the telling as it is enthralling.
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Letters 632-937
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Letters of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Letters 200-631
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics
Author: Marilyn MorrisPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political arena with the growth of political parties, extra-parliamentary political activities, and a partisan print culture. The public’s preoccupation with the personal character of the ruling elite paralleled a growing interest in the interior lives of individuals in histories, novels, and the theater. Newspaper reports of the royal family intensified in intimacy and its members became moral exemplars—most often, paradoxically, when they misbehaved. Ad hominem attacks on political leaders became commonplace; politicians of all affiliations continued to assess one another’s characters based on their success and daring with women and money. And newly popular human-interest journalism promoted the illusion that the personal characters of public figures could be read by appearances.
Letters
Author: Richard Brinsley SheridanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton
Author: Diane AtkinsonPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613748833
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Westminster, London, June 22, 1836. Crowds are gathering at the Court of Common Pleas. On trial is Caroline Sheridan Norton, a beautiful and clever young woman who had been maneuvered into marrying the Honorable George Norton when she was just nineteen. Ten years older, he is a dull, violent, and controlling lawyer, but Caroline is determined not to be a traditional wife. By her early twenties, Caroline has become a respected poet and songwriter, clever mimic, and outrageous flirt. Her beauty and wit attract many male admirers, including the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton accuses Caroline and the Prime Minister of “criminal conversation” (adultery) precipitating Victorian England's “scandal of the century.” In Westminster Hall that day is a young Charles Dickens, who would, just a few months later, fictionalize events as Bardell v. Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. After a trial lasting twelve hours, the jury's not guilty verdict is immediate, unanimous, and sensational. George is a laughingstock. Angry and humiliated he cuts Caroline off, as was his right under the law, refuses to let her see their three sons, seizes her manuscripts and letters, her clothes and jewels, and leaves her destitute. Knowing she can not change her brutish husband's mind, Caroline resolves to change the law. Steeped in archival research that draws on more than 1,500 of Caroline's personal letters, The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the rights of women everywhere. For the next thirty years Caroline campaigned for women and battled male-dominated Victorian society, helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839), and influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act (1857) and the Married Women's Property Act (1870), which gave women a separate legal identity for the first time.
Author: William Hazlitt