Author: William Eden Baron AucklandPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The Journal and Correspondence of William, Lord Auckland
Author: William Eden Baron AucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The Journal and Correspondence of William, Lord Auckland
Author: William Eden Baron AucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
England in the Nineteenth Century Volume 2
Author: A. F. FremantlePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040226272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution – the condition of the cotton spinners, the hardships for labouring children, the overcrowded prisons and other brutal punishments. At this time the principle branch of local government was the Poor Law and this book discusses how, in the monumental task of providing workhouses for the destitute, the England of the eighteenth century had completely failed. As well as social history, the book also covers military and political history.
Daughters of Ireland
Author: Janet ToddPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307414930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates and a vast fortune, Lord and Lady Kingsborough appeared to be blessed with everything but marital love—which only made the scandal that tore through their family more shocking. In 1798, at the height of a rebellion that was setting Ireland ablaze, Robert King was tried for the murder of his wife’s cousin—a crime born of passion that proved to have extraordinary political implications. In her brilliant new book, Janet Todd unfolds the fascinating story of how this powerful Anglo-Irish family became entwined with the downfall not only of their class, but of their very way of life. Like Amanda Foreman’s bestselling Georgiana, Daughters of Ireland brings to life the world of a glittering elite in an age of international revolution. When her daughters, Margaret and Mary, were at their most impressionable, Lady Kingsborough hired the firebrand feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to be their governess, little realizing how radically this would alter both girls’ beliefs and characters. The tall, striking Margaret went on to provide crucial support to the United Irishmen in the days leading up to the Rebellion of 1798, while soft, pleasing Mary indulged in an illicit, and all but incestuous love affair that precipitated multiple tragedies. As the Kingsboroughs imploded, the most powerful and colorful figures of the day were swept up in their drama—the dashing aristocrat turned revolutionary Lord Edward Fitzgerald; the liberal, cultivated Countess of Moira, a terrible snob despite her support of Irish revolutionaires; the notorious philanderer Colonel George King, whose sexual debauchery was matched only by his appalling cruelty; Britain’s cold calculating prime minister William Pitt and its mad ruler King George III. With irresistible narrative drive and richly intimate historic detail, Daughters of Ireland an absolutely spellbinding work of history, biography, passion, and rebellion.
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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A History of the French Revolution
Author: Henry Morse StephensPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)Publisher:
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Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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