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Venus of Empire

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Author : Flora Fraser
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832550
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Venus of Empire written by Flora Fraser and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fraser cleverly contrasts Pauline's callous offloading of successive lovers ... The success of a biography of an un-improving subject like this is whether or not we miss them at its close ... Pauline was clearly irresistible company' Literary Review Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalised by Antonio Canova's statue and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure. At the turn of the nineteenth century she was considered by many to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. She shocked the continent with the boldness of her love affairs, her opulent wardrobe and jewels and, most famously, her decision to pose nearly nude for Canova's sculpture, which has been replicated in countless ways through the years. But just as remarkable for Pauline's private life was her fidelity to the emperor (if not to her husbands). She was witness to Napoleon's great victories in Italy, and she was often with him and her rival for his loyalty, the Empress Josephine, at Malmaison. When he was exiled to Elba, Pauline was the only sibling to follow him there, and after Waterloo she begged to be allowed to join him at Saint Helena. No biographer has gone so deeply into the sources or so closely examined one of the seminal relationships of the man who shaped modern Europe. In Venus of Empire, Flora Fraser casts new light on the Napoleonic era while crafting a dynamic, vivid portrait of mesmerising woman.

Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire

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Author : Flora Fraser
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307277933
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire written by Flora Fraser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon's favorite sister, with color photos, paintings, and illustrations. Considered by many in Europe to be the most beautiful woman at the turn of the nineteenth century, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese shocked the continent with the boldness of her love affairs, her opulent wardrobe and jewels, her decision to pose nearly nude for Canova's sculpture, and her rumored incestuous relationship with her brother, the Emperor Napoleon—the only man to whom she was loyal. When Napoleon was exiled to Elba, Pauline was the only sibling to follow him there, and after the final defeat at Waterloo she begged to join him at Saint Helena. In Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire, Flora Fraser casts new light on the Napoleonic era and crafts a dynamic, vivid portrait of a mesmerizing woman.

Imperial Venus

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Author : Len Ortzen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Venus written by Len Ortzen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Unruly Queen

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Author : Flora Fraser
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832542
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Unruly Queen written by Flora Fraser and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Splendid ... her book does justice to a fascinating woman who was tragic, brave, likable, humorous, and indeed, unruly' Spectator 'Written with elegance, wit and a narrative zest that novelists might envy' Economist At the heart of the extravagant Regency period – nine scandalous, politically fascinating years from 1811 to 1820 – lies the bitter mismatch between the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince Regent, later George IV, separated privately from Caroline of Brunswick within a year of their marriage in 1795. The couple remained separated until Queen Caroline's death in 1821, but the mockery of their marriage resisted the most strenuous efforts to dissolve it. Barred from the Regent's court, Queen Caroline travelled through Europe with a small court of her own. The story of The Unruly Queen – a long, courageous fight by an extraordinary individual to see justice done in the face of overbearing authority – is compellingly told by Flora Fraser. This astonishing book culminates with the Queen's House of Lords trial for adultery and exclusion from her bigamous husband's coronation.

Beloved Emma

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Author : Flora Fraser
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832569
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Beloved Emma written by Flora Fraser and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bewitchingly readable, authoritative' The Times 'At last, in Flora Fraser, Lady Hamilton has a biographer able to capture both the woman and her times' Amanda Foreman Born in the eighteenth century, Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time. Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable – until she began her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma follows Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and her life as an artist's assistant, through glittering successes as the wife of Sir William Hamilton in Naples, and that notorious romance with Nelson, to her painful descent from the heights of fame to an early death in Calais. Flora Fraser captures the energy, purpose and sexuality that drove this extraordinary woman through her tumultuous life.

Jane and the Canterbury Tale

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Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0345530357
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Jane and the Canterbury Tale written by Stephanie Barron and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years after news of her scandalous husband’s death, Adelaide Fiske is at the altar again, her groom a soldier on the Marquis of Wellington’s staff. The prospects seem bright for one of the most notorious women in Kent—until Jane Austen discovers a corpse on the ancient Pilgrim’s Way that runs through her brother Edward’s estate. As First Magistrate for Canterbury, Edward is forced to investigate, with Jane as his reluctant assistant. But she rises to the challenge and leaves no stone unturned, discovering mysteries deeper than she could have anticipated. It seems that Adelaide’s previous husband has returned for the new couple’s nuptials—only this time, genuinely, profoundly dead. But when a second corpse appears beside the ancient Pilgrim’s Way, Jane has no choice but to confront a murderer, lest the next corpse be her own.

The Weaker Vessel

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Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804153418
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Weaker Vessel written by Antonia Fraser and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous century between the death of Elizabeth and Queen Anne’s assumption of the throne. More than a collection of female biographies, The Weaker Vessel offers fresh insight into its subjects’ attitudes and lives, with appearances by heiresses and dairy maids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress. "An almost encyclopedic chronicle of women in 17th century England...wives, warriors, heiresses, preachers... alive with anecdote after anecdote." – The New York Times Book Review

American Rose

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Author : Karen Abbott
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 081297851X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book American Rose written by Karen Abbott and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy’s world, including her intense triangle relationship with her sister, actress June Havoc, and their formidable mother, Rose, a petite but ferocious woman who literally killed to get her daughters on the stage. Weaving in the compelling saga of the Minskys—four scrappy brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee’s brand of burlesque and transform the entertainment landscape—Karen Abbott creates a rich account of a legend whose sensational tale of tragedy and triumph embodies the American Dream.

The Romanov Bride

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Author : Robert Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440638004
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Romanov Bride written by Robert Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling tale of Romanov intrigue from the author of The Kitchen Boy Book groups and historical fiction buffs have made Robert Alexander's two previous novels word-of-mouth favorites and national bestsellers. Set against a backdrop of Imperial Russia's twilight, The Romanov Bride has the same enduring appeal. The Grand Duchess Elisavyeta's story begins like a fairy tale-a German princess renowned for her beauty and kind heart marries the Grand Duke Sergei of Russia and enters the Romanov's lavish court. Her husband, however, rules his wife as he does Moscow-with a cold, hard fist. And, after a peaceful demonstration becomes a bloodbath, the fires of the revolution link Elisavyeta's destiny to that of Pavel-a young Bolshevik-forever.

The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte

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Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Making a Prince's Museum

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Author : Carole Paul
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892365395
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Making a Prince's Museum written by Carole Paul and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly born heir. In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the princely collection to the public museum. Rounding out this volume is a catalog of the Getty Research Institute's fifty-nine drawings for the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's discussion of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the Villa's other antiquities museum.

Pauline Bonaparte

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Author : Flora Fraser
Publisher : André Versaille
ISBN 13 : 9782874951497
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Pauline Bonaparte written by Flora Fraser and published by André Versaille. This book was released on 2011 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauline Bonaparte est un personnage fascinant. Au tournant du XIXe siècle, elle était considérée par beaucoup comme la plus belle femme d’Europe. Elle a choqué le continent par l'audace de ses amours, sa garde-robe et ses bijoux somptueux, et, surtout, par sa décision de poser presque nue pour la sculpture de Canova, laquelle a été reproduite d'innombrables fois au fil des ans. Mais tout aussi remarquable que sa vie privée a été la fidélité de Pauline à l'empereur (si ce n'est à ses maris). Elle a été témoin des grandes victoires de Napoléon en Italie, et elle a été souvent avec lui et l'impératrice Joséphine, à Malmaison. Quand il fut exilé à l'île d'Elbe, Pauline fut sa seule parente à le suivre là-bas, et après Waterloo, elle demanda à être autorisée à le rejoindre à Sainte-Hélène. Aucun biographe n’a été si profondément dans les sources ou n’a si étroitement examiné l'une des plus proches relations de l'homme qui a façonné l'Europe moderne. Flora Fraser a jeté une nouvelle lumière sur l'époque napoléonienne, en peignant un portrait dynamique et vivant d'une femme envoûtante.

Napoleon's Egypt

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Author : Juan Cole
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230607411
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Napoleon's Egypt written by Juan Cole and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, including how they imagined Egypt, how their expectations differed from what they found, and how they grappled with military challenges in a foreign land. Cole ultimately reveals how Napoleon's invasion, the first modern attempt to invade the Arab world, invented and crystallized the rhetoric of liberal imperialism.

Hottentot Venus

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Author : Barbara Chase-Riboud
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307426289
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Hottentot Venus written by Barbara Chase-Riboud and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such “monster” tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an “invisible” of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life.

Napoleon's Women

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Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393324990
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Napoleon's Women written by Christopher Hibbert and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a soldier and an emperor, Napoleon was ruthless and determined; as a lover, he showed the same single-minded ferocity.

The End and the Beginning

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Author : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924279
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The End and the Beginning written by Hermynia Zur Mühlen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: