Author: William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Correspondence of William Pitt
Author: William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Author: PittCorrespondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Author: William PittPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108067514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
Published 1838-40, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years' worth of letters to and from Pitt the Elder.
Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham Edited by the Executors of His Son, John, Earl of Chatham, and Published from the Original Manuscripts in Their Possession
Author: Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Edited by William Stanhope Taylor and John Henry Pringle ...
Author: William PittCorrespondence of ... Earl of Chatham ..., 4
Author: William PittWilliam Beckford
Author: Timothy MowlPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571300480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
William Beckford had two lives: one real and sensational, the other an elegant forgery he invented in retirement after the young Disraeli mischievously sent him a homoerotic epic based loosely on Beckford's own career. Biographers have been bemused by Beckford's faked letters and dream encounters with celebrities, but his real life was far more significant: he is the pivotal Romantic between Horace Walpole and Byron. Beckford was reared in exotic isolation in a Palladian palace where he grew up obsessed with dark grottoes, towers and images of the living dead. Rushed into marriage by an apprehensive mother, he indulged his actual passions (both legal and paedophile) until a Tory administration staged a sex scandal that exiled him. In his absence his novel, Vathek was treacherously pirated. Returned to England, Beckford flung his wealth into the creation of Fonthill Abbey, which, by its shadowy vistas and glamorous camp furnishings, paved the way for the wildest excesses of Victorian taste.
Chatham Papers
Author: William PittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
William Beckford and the New Millennium
Author: Kevin BerlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Beckford (d.1844), a fabulously wealthy heir to a sugar fortune, spent his time and money amassing a major collection of art, furniture, books, and curios and building a splendid Gothic Revival castle to house it. Ostracized from British society for his homosexuality, Beckford continue to collect, build, travel, and write, most notably the torrid O
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