Author: Elizabeth HERVEY (Countess of Bristol, calling herself Duchess of Kingston.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Memoir of the Duchess of Kingston, extracted from the British Magazine and Review, for August, 1782
Author: Elizabeth HERVEY (Countess of Bristol, calling herself Duchess of Kingston.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Elizabeth
Author: Claire GervatPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446441636
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Elizabeth Chudleigh was one of the eighteenth century's most colourful characters. Born into impoverished gentility, her beauty, wit and vitality soon earned her a place at the centre of court life. When she married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 she had reached the highest rung of the social ladder. But Elizabeth was carrying a dark secret. In 1744 she had secretly married a naval lieutenant called Augustus Hervey, and after the Duke's death her first marriage was discovered. Bigamy fever swept London society and, in a very public trial, Elizabeth was found guilty. But her strength of character ensured that, even when her friends deserted her, her courage and zest for life did not. In an engaging history of this strong and wilful woman, Gervat shows there was far more to Elizabeth than the caricature villain her contemporaries made her out to be.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Slavery and the British Country House
Author: Madge DresserPublisher: Historic England Publishing
ISBN: 9781848020641
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation's heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on 'Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research' organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.Lavishly illustrated and based on the latest scholarship, this wide-ranging and innovative volume provides in-depth examinations of individual houses, regional studies and critical reconsiderations of existing heritage sites, including two studies specially commissioned by English Heritage and one sponsored by the National Trust.