Author: Marcello MazzoniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Milan (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Traveller's Guide Of Milan, with a Sketch of the Environs And a Description of the Lakes
Author: Marcello MazzoniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Milan (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Grand Tour Diary of Frederica Murray, 1819-1820
Author: Mark GuscinPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527564819
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In 1819, the Murray family set out on one of the last Grand Tours before railways forever changed the way people travelled. The eldest daughter of the Second Earl of Mansfield, Lady Frederica Murray (later Stanhope, as she married James Hamilton Stanhope, the youngest son of the 3rd Earl of Stanhope) kept a diary on the tour, which this book explores in detail. The diary has never been published (not even mentioned in any of the Grand Tour literature) and is a fascinating and essential look at the Murray/Mansfield family, and Europe at the time. Frederica was a deeply observant traveller and noted down numerous picturesque and historical details; she was also very open and sometimes even cutting in her opinions when she came across something or someone she did not like. Frederica’s diary shows a very mature 19-year-old with clear opinions on art, literature and the world around her. This book will therefore be interesting for scholars of travel, Grand Tours, and Regency England and its society, as well as anyone with an interest in travel and history.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Bibliography of British and American Travel in Italy to 1860
Author: R. S. Pine-CoffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Divided Affections
Author: Carol BurnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Maria Hadfield Cosway was a beautiful and talented English artist, who accompanied her husband, the miniature portrait painter, Richard Cosway, to Paris, in 1786, where she was introduced to Thomas Jefferson, then American Envoy to the Court of Versailles. The future President of the United States fell in love with the young Mrs. Cosway the day they met. Their impossible love was immortalised in Jefferson's 4000-word letter, a Dialogue between the Head and the Heart, which marked the beginning of a lifelong correspondence, the record of a touching and unrequited affection. But Maria Cosway's life is not only extraordinary because of her relationship with the American ambassador. She was a celebrity artist, an exceptional musician, a Regency hostess who entertained the Prince of Wales, later an intimate of the Bonapartes, and finally a successful founder of schools. For her pioneering work in women's education, this daughter of an innkeeper was given the title of Baroness by the Austrian emperor Franz I.
The Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume
Author: Walter ScottThe Works of Lord Byron, Including His Suppressed Poems, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Facsimile Letter.]
![The Works of Lord Byron, Including His Suppressed Poems, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Facsimile Letter.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/AyxYAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The Prose Works
Author: Walter ScottThe works of lord Byron including his suppressed poems
Author: George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Author: Thomas Moore