Author: Angela Georgina Burdett-CouttsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Burdett-Coutts Library
Author: Angela Georgina Burdett-CouttsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Lady Unknown
Author: Edna HealeyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448207231
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In 1837, at the age of twenty-three, Angela Burdett-Coutts inherited a vast fortune from her banker grandfather, making her one of the richest and thus potentially powerful women in Victorian England. She moved in the highest social circles: entertaining the rising stars of the political scene, Disraeli and Gladstone; attending scientific lectures with Faraday; pursuing her philanthropic work with Dickens; and falling in love with the aged Duke of Wellington. Her acts of charity were enormous and wide-ranging-establishing a home for 'fallen women', pioneering model housing, battling for sanitary reform, supporting the NSPCC and the RSPCA, and promoting technical education and domestic science. A devout Anglican, she built churches, founded colonial bishoprics and encouraged the missionary work of Livingstone and others. Despite all this activity, Angela remained throughout her life a shy and supremely private person. The full range of her charity will probably never be known, for she often acted through intermediaries such as Dickens, describing herself only as 'lady unknown'. And a 'lady unknown' she has largely remained, her role in Victorian England strangely overlooked or forgotten. Edna Healey has uncovered much new material, including unpublished correspondence from Dickens, Livingstone, Gladstone, Wellington, Faraday and Henry Irving, to provide a fascinating insight into this most remarkable lady.
Woman's Mission
Author: Angela Georgina Burdett-CouttsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108057225
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
An 1893 summary of the rich variety of charitable work undertaken by one of the most remarkable philanthropists of her age.
The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector
Author: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Author: Pablo AlvarezPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of the largest collection of Greek manuscripts in America, including 110 codices and fragments ranging from the fourth to the nineteenth century. The collection, held in the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Michigan Library, contains many manuscripts from Epirus and the Meteora monasteries built on high pinnacles of rocks in Thessaly. Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann has based the manuscript descriptions on the latest developments in the fields of paleography and codicology, including the newest recommendations of the Institute for Research and History of Texts in Paris. The catalogue includes high-resolution plates of all the manuscripts, allowing researchers to compare the entries with other Greek manuscripts around the world. This catalogue contains a trove of fascinating information related to Byzantine culture that will be available for the first time to scholars working on various disciplines of the humanities such as Classical and Byzantine Studies, Art History, Medieval Studies, Theology, and History. This is the first volume of a projected two-volume set. Volume 2, also by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, will contain descriptions of remaining Greek manuscripts in the Library’s collection, starting with Mich. Ms. 59 and ending with Mich. Ms. 238, for a total of 53 manuscripts and 8 fragments. Both volumes will have the same format – catalogue entries for each manuscript together with extensive illustrations. The publication date for Volume 2 has not been established.
Antiques
Author: The Bibliographer
Author: George Henry SargentPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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