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Ladies of the Grand Tour

Author : Brian Dolan
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780007105335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Ladies of the Grand Tour written by Brian Dolan and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a Wife, women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house, talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke from these directives and took up the distinctly male privilege of traveling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit, and body. For many the Grand Tour -- often undertaken in great parades of coaches laden with servants, trunks, and furniture -- became an intellectual and romantic rite of passage. The landscape, health spas, salons, and social scene of Enlightenment Europe provided a wealth of glamorous, revolutionary, and therapeutic experiences from which many ladies returned "the best informed and most perfect creatures." Brian Dolan leads us into the hearts and minds of the ladies through their stories, thoughts, and court gossip, recorded in journals, letters, and diaries. Ladies of the Grand Tour creates a mesmerizing portrait of a previously overlooked slice of eighteenth-century life."

The Grand Tour

Author : Patricia C. Wrede
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453254692
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Tour written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young Regency ladies with special powers must save the monarchy: “A satisfying blend of magic, mystery, humor, and romance” (Booklist). Ocean voyages do not agree with wizards, and seasickness during the Channel crossing is the price Cecelia must pay for her budding magical skill. As her nausea ebbs, she is comforted by her new husband, James, and the knowledge that at long last they are on their honeymoon. In their company is Cecelia’s cousin Kate, newly minted as the Marchioness of Schofield, and her husband, Thomas. The shared journey guarantees the two couples a happy start to married life, if they can survive the perils of the Continent. In Calais, a mysterious woman visits Cecelia with a package intended for Thomas’s mother. Inside is an alabaster flask of noble manufacture, one of the royal artifacts that have been vanishing all over Europe as part of a magical plot against the French crown. This is no simple honeymoon: On their tour of Europe, Kate and Cecelia must save the monarchy from an emperor-in-exile named Napoleon. This ebook features illustrated biographies of Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the authors’ personal collections.

Traveling Beyond Her Sphere

Author : Bess Beatty
Publisher : New Acdemia+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1955835349
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Traveling Beyond Her Sphere written by Bess Beatty and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of American women challenging domesticity by touring Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women’s proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left home and country to travel in foreign lands. This book explores the reasons for and ramifications of women making a Grand Tour, a trip to Europe, between 1814 and 1914; this century between major European wars witnessed the golden age of American Grand Tours. Men and women alike were inspired by a Euro-centric education that valued the Old World as the fountainhead of their civilization. Reaching Europe necessitated an Ocean crossing, a disorienting time taking women far from domestic comfort. Once abroad, American women had to juggle accustomed norms of behavior with the demands of travel and customs of foreign lands. Wearing proper attire, even when hiking in the Alps, coping with unfamiliar languages, grappling with ever-changing rules about customs and passports, traveling alone—these were just some of the challenges women faced when traveling. Some traveled with their husband, others with female relatives and friends and a few entirely alone. Traveling companions had to agree on where to stay, when and where to dine, how to travel, and where to go. The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 made clear that even in the twentieth century, a Grand Tour involved risk. Because more women survived then men, some insisted that the Titanic’s example should curb female independence. However, a growing number of women continued making a Grand Tour for the next two year. It was the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 that temporarily brought an end to a century of female Grand Tours. “Beatty’s ability to weave the experiences of hundreds of American women on the Grand Tour in Europe into a consistent narrative is per se a remarkable feat. But the author does much more than that. She uses the “journey” as trope to represent the long and difficult process of women’s emancipation, in its several cultural, psychological, social, and political dimensions.” —Susanna Delfino, Professor of American History, retired. University of Genoa, Italy

The Grand Tour

Author : Mike Rendell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784424986
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Tour written by Mike Rendell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the raucous yet educational 'gap year' tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many young eighteenth-century aristocrats, the Grand Tour was an essential rite of passage. Spending many months travelling established routes through France and Italy, they would visit the great cultural sites of western Europe – from Paris, through to Venice, Florence and Rome – ostensibly absorbing art, architecture and culture. Yet all too often, it was a gateway to gambling and debauchery. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Mike Rendell shows how the tour reached its zenith, examining the young tourists' activities and how they acquired 'polish' and an appreciation for fashion, opera and classical antiquity. He also explores their passion for souvenirs and art collecting, and how these items made their way back to grand country houses, which were themselves often modelled to the rules of classical European architecture.

Italy’s Eighteenth Century

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759049
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Italy’s Eighteenth Century written by Paula Findlen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

TRAVELING BEYOND HER SPHERE

Author : Bess Beatty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997496222
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book TRAVELING BEYOND HER SPHERE written by Bess Beatty and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women's proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left home and country to travel in foreign lands. This book explores the reasons for and ramifications of women making a Grand Tour, a trip to Europe, between 1814 and 1914; this century between major European wars witnessed the golden age of American Grand Tours. Men and women alike were inspired by a Euro-centric education that valued the Old World as the fountainhead of their civilization. Reaching Europe necessitated an Ocean crossing, a disorienting time taking women far from domestic comfort. Once abroad, American women had to juggle accustomed norms of behavior with the demands of travel and customs of foreign lands. Wearing proper attire, even when hiking in the Alps, coping with unfamiliar languages, grappling with ever-changing rules about customs and passports, traveling alone - these were just some of the challenges women faced when traveling. Some traveled with their husband, others with female relatives and friends and a few entirely alone. Traveling companions had to agree on where to stay, when and where to dine, how to travel, and where to go. The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 made clear that even in the twentieth century, a Grand Tour involved risk. Because more women survived then men, some insisted that the Titanic's example should curb female independence. However, a growing number of women continued making a Grand Tour for the next two year. It was the Outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 that temporarily brought an end to a century of female Grand Tours. "Beatty's ability to weave the experiences of hundreds of American women on the Grand Tour in Europe into a consistent narrative is per se a remarkable feat. But the Author does much more than that. She uses the "journey" as trope to represent the long and difficult process of women's emancipation, in its several cultural, psychological, social, and political dimensions." --Susanna Delfino, Professor of American History, retired. University of Genoa, Italy

A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883

Author : Rose Pender
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803287921
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883 written by Rose Pender and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1985-03-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aristocratic Rose Pender and her husband, James, were among the thousands of English travelers in the American West during the latter half of the nineteenth century. This is Pender's lively account of a grand tour in 1883 of Texas, California, Salt Lake City, Wyoming, Dakota Territory, and far-flung points. ø A. B. Guthrie Jr. in his foreword writes that "all students and collectors will want" A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883. "It deals with a West in transition from frontier to the glimmer of modern times, from open range to fenced pastures, from trails to trains, from makeshift and made-do to more convenient and easier ways. We see it through the eyes and from the sensibilities of a gentlewoman and a Britisher to boot. The woman was indeed a Lady. She brought to America her highborn prejudices and standards. . .and with them a sharp eye, a chatty pen, and a game spirit. . . . She adds to our knowledge of a time no one is old enough to remember."

The Grand Tour Diary of Frederica Murray, 1819-1820

Author : Mark Guscin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527564819
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Tour Diary of Frederica Murray, 1819-1820 written by Mark Guscin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Grand Tour

Author : Olivia Wearne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781867255987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Tour written by Olivia Wearne and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid story of campervans, stowaways and mischief at any age is essentially about families: the ones you have and the ones you make. When Ruby and Angela embark on a Grey Nomads road trip, the last thing they expect is a tiny stowaway; one who will turn them from unsuspecting tourists into wanted kidnappers and land them in a world of trouble. As their leisurely retirement plans unravel, Angela's relationship with her brother Bernard goes from bad to worse. Bernard has his own problems to contend with. Adrift in life, his career as a news presenter has been reduced to opening fetes and reading Voss as an audio book (a seemingly impossible task). His troubles are compounded when his wife starts dating a younger man and a drink-driving incident turns him into a celebrity offender. As Angela and Ruby set about repairing burnt bridges and helping their unexpected guest, and Bernard attempts to patch together his broken life, they discover that even after a lifetime of experience, you're never too old to know better. A warm, funny, sharply observed story about aging disgracefully and loving the one you're with. PRAISE 'Laugh out loud funny. If you love characters of a certain age behaving very, very badly - read this book.' Victoria Purman, bestselling Australian author of The Nurses' War 'A great debut novel packed with crazy characters, this is an entertaining story of growing older and coming up trumps.' Tricia Stringer, bestselling author of Keeping Up Appearances 'Olivia Wearne's compelling and witty novel unveils the frailties and passions of a complex array of characters...The perfect book to take on your own Grand Tour.' - Jane Coverdale, author

The Classical Tradition

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035720
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Classical Tradition written by Anthony Grafton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Language and the Grand Tour

Author : Arturo Tosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487270
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Language and the Grand Tour written by Arturo Tosi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.

Everything Is Going to Be Great

Author : Rachel Shukert
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062005286
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Everything Is Going to Be Great written by Rachel Shukert and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts." — Los Angeles Times Everything Is Going to Be Great, is performer, playwright, comedian, and author Rachel Shukert’s hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. She chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany “adulthood.” Fans of Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are going to love Shulkert’s story, and her sharp, smart humor.

The Ladies of the Camellias

Author : Lillian Groag
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822215011
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Ladies of the Camellias written by Lillian Groag and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: An hilarious farce about an imagined meeting in Paris, 1897, between the famous theater divas Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. The two actresses--who were the biggest and most temperamental stars of their day--were scheduled to perform b

Ladies of the Grand Tour

Author : Brian Dolan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies of the Grand Tour written by Brian Dolan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to The Art of Governing A Wife (1747), women in Georgian England were supposed to alay up and save, look to the house; talk to few and take of all within. However, some broke from these taboos and took up the previously male privilege of travelling to the Continent to develop mind, spirit and body.

The Grand Tour

Author : Jerry Herman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573681004
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Tour written by Jerry Herman and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In France, 1940, an unlikely pair team up to evade the approaching Nazis. Little Jacobowsky, a Polish Jewish intellectual, has been one step ahead of the Nazis for years. Stjerbinsky is an aristocratic, anti-Semitic Polish colonel who's trying to get to England. Jacobowsky has a car but can't drive; the colonel can. And so begins their adventurous journey - set against a backdrop of lively and lovely songs and dances - that takes them to a carnival, a Jewish wedding, and, when the car breaks down, onto a train. Accompanying them is Marianne, the colonel's girlfriend with whom Jacobowsky falls in love. But it is not to be.

Sorcery and Cecelia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

Author : Patricia C. Wrede
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152046156
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Sorcery and Cecelia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1817 in England, two young cousins, Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write letters to keep each other informed of their exploits, which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted by evil wizards.

Upstairs at the White House

Author : J. B. West
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480449385
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Upstairs at the White House written by J. B. West and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America’s first families. J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated its daily life—at the request of the president and his family. He directed state functions; planned parties, weddings and funerals, gardens and playgrounds, and extensive renovations; and, with a large staff, supervised every activity in the presidential home. For twenty-eight years, first as assistant to the chief usher, then as chief usher, he witnessed national crises and triumphs, and interacted daily with six consecutive presidents and first ladies, as well as their parents, children and grandchildren, and houseguests—including friends, relatives, and heads of state. J. B. West, whom Jackie Kennedy called “one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met,” provides an absorbing, one-of-a-kind history of life among the first ladies. Alive with anecdotes ranging from Eleanor Roosevelt’s fascinating political strategies to Jackie Kennedy’s tragic loss and the personal struggles of Pat Nixon, Upstairs at the White House is a rich account of a slice of American history that usually remains behind closed doors.