Author: James Hibbert (member of the Council, Manchester)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Libel)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Stoneleigh Abbey Case. A Report of the Trial of Charles Griffin ... on the Prosecution of Lord Leigh, for Libel, at the Warwick Spring Assizes, 1849, Before Lord Chief Justice Wilde
Author: James Hibbert (member of the Council, Manchester)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Libel)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Paranormal Warwickshire
Author: S. C. SkillmanPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445698277
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Takes the reader into the world of ghosts and spirits in Warwickshire, following their footsteps into the unknown.
Stoneleigh Abbey Pictures
Author: Stoneleigh AbbeyStoneleigh Abbey
Author: Robert BearmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780904201055
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Missing Monument Murders
Author: Judy StovePublisher: Waterside Press
ISBN: 1909976245
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Missing Monument Murders is a veiled story of power, wealth, dark deeds and intrigue. In 1806, Jane Austen’s relative, the Reverend Thomas Leigh, came into vast estates and the mood in the extended Leigh/Austen family was jubilant. But within a few years, bizarre events were the talk of the district: the removal and destruction of monuments in the village church, cheating, blackmail, and the eviction of tenants who dared speak of events. It would even be alleged that the family engaged in murder to protect their inheritance. Judy Stove’s painstaking research pieces together for the first time in detail the full story, in which whistle blower Charles Griffin, a local solicitor, ended up in gaol. Whether scandal-mongering or clever and powerful suppression at a time when criminal investigations were all but non-existent, the truth remains a mystery. One that touched on Austen’s own world and in which connections not just to the great and the good but to some of her characters, plots and personal life unfold. Author Judy Stove is an academic based at the University of New South Wales, a role she balances with working in school administration. After studying classics at the University of Sydney, she worked for the Australian Commonwealth Departments of Defence and Finance. She is married with two adult sons, and is an active member of the Jane Austen Society of Australia.
Stoneleigh Abbey
Author: STONELEIGH.Felix Holt, the True Story
Author: P L QuinnPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244611505
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Felix Holt, the True Story is a critical examination of Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) by George Eliot. Since the novel's publication, it has automatically been assumed that the fictional East Midlands market town of Treby Magna (where the novel is set) "must" be based upon the Nuneaton of George Eliot's childhood. However, this assumption has made the novel largely "unreadable." Whilst Eliot's childhood and her earlier novels are informative towards the construction of Felix Holt, the Radical, this study proposes that the Treby community is based upon the East Midlands market town of Leicester - by far the oldest East Midlands community. It is also proposed that Eliot wanted to write a novel with a similar impact to Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (1851 - 1853) in which the community finally pulls together. Hence, it is determined that Eliot wrote Felix Holt, the Radical, as a means of unifying the varying rifts of "Christian eclecticism" into her mode of Humanism.
Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House
Author: Jon StobartPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000438740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines, religious faith and, above all, relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts, and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them, made country houses into homes.
Stoneleigh Abbey & Cottages
Author: William RiderClass Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism
Author: Rodney HiltonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826427383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The conflict between landlords and peasants over the appropriation of the surplus product of the peasant holding was a prime mover in the evolution of medieval society. In this collection of essays Rodney Hilton looks at the economic context within which these conflicts took place. He seeks to explain the considerable variations in the size, composition and management of landed estates and investigates the nature of medieval urbanisation, a consequence of the development of both local commodity production and long distance trade in luxury goods. By setting the broader economic context – the nature of the peasant and landlord economies and the commercialisation of peasant production – Hilton's essays enable a thorough understanding of the relationship between landlords and peasants in medieval society.