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Author: Charles PHILLIPS (One of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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An Elegy on the Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales. [An Extract from the Preceding. With a Slightly Abridged Duplicate in MS.]
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Author: Charles PHILLIPS (One of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: A Tribute for the Negro
Author: Wilson ArmisteadPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Hereditary Genius
Author: Sir Francis GaltonPublisher:
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Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Author: Thomas PercyThe Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times
Author: Richard DaveyPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146561656X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey is unquestionably one of the most poignant episodes in English history, but its very dramatic completeness and compactness have almost invariably caused its wider significance to be obscured by the element of personal pathos with which it abounds. The sympathetic figure of the studious, saintly maiden, single-hearted in her attachment to the austere creed of Geneva, stands forth alone in a score of books refulgent against the gloomy background of the greed and ambition to which she was sacrificed. The whole drama of her usurpation and its swift catastrophe is usually treated as an isolated phenomenon, the result of one man’s unscrupulous self-seeking; and with the fall of the fair head of the Nine Days’ Queen upon the blood-stained scaffold within the Tower the curtain is rung down and the incident looked upon as fittingly closed by the martyrdom of the gentlest champion of the Protestant Reformation in England. Such a treatment of the subject, however attractive and humanly interesting it may be, is nevertheless unscientific as history and untrue in fact. An adequate appreciation of the tendencies behind the unsuccessful attempt to deprive Mary of her birthright can only be gained by a consideration of the circumstances preceding and surrounding the main incident. The reasons why Northumberland, a weak man as events proved, was able to ride rough-shod over the nobles and people of England, the explanation of his sudden and ignominious collapse and of the apparent levity with which the nation at large changed its religious beliefs and observance at the bidding of assumed authority are none of them on the surface of events; and the story of Jane Grey as it is usually told, whilst abounding in pathetic interest gives no key to the vast political issues of which the fatal intrigue of Northumberland was but a by-product. To represent the tragedy as a purely religious one, as is not infrequently done, is doubly misleading. That one side happened to be Catholic and the other Protestant was merely a matter of party politics, and probably not a single active participator in the events, except Jane herself, and to some extent Mary, was really moved by religious considerations at all, loud as the professions of some of the leaders were.
Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon
Author: Phyllis WeliverPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107184800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.
Historical Essays & Studies
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Dorothy Osborne
Author: Dorothy OsbornePublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Seventy-seven letters from an upper-class English woman to her paramour offer a window in to a courtship that, the editor argues, are marked by the intelligence of the writer and her insistence of being treated as an intellectual equal. Explanatory notes and an introduction discussing the importance of the letters for understanding gender politics in 17th century England accompany the letters. Appendices present letters from after the marriage, genealogies, and other contextual information. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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