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The Game of Love in Georgian England

Author : Sally Holloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019255591X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Game of Love in Georgian England written by Sally Holloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught process. It provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hair. It also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the Georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industry. The book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courts. The Game of Love in Georgian England brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions. The book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objects. Love emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined rituals.

The Georgian Art of Gambling

Author : Claire Cock-Starkey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780712357395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Georgian Art of Gambling written by Claire Cock-Starkey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Georgian Art of Gambling" takes the reader on a miscellaneous tour through high and low society to reveal all aspects of gambling in the Georgian era. Descriptions of the most fashionable card and dice games of the day are interspersed with snippets of contemporary anti-gambling pamphlets, descriptions of the most famous (and degenerate) gambling houses, and accounts of the ruination of many high-profile aristocrats. "The Georgian Art of Gambling" covers wagering on sports such as cockfighting, bull baiting, boxing and cricket to the more sedentary pleasures of the card table. Both the civilised (card games portrayed in the novels of Jane Austen) and the debauched (card sharps and loaded dice) are explored, offering the reader a fascinating glimpse into the extent of gambling in Georgian Britain.

The Game of Love in Georgian England

Author : Sally Holloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019882307X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Game of Love in Georgian England written by Sally Holloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught process. It provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hair. It also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the Georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industry. The book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courts. The Game of Love in Georgian England brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions. The book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objects. Love emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined rituals.

Feeling Things

Author : Stephanie Downes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019252366X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Feeling Things written by Stephanie Downes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe. It focuses on the period before mass production, when limited literacy often prioritised material methods of communication. The subject of materiality has been of increasing significance in recent historical inquiry, alongside growing emphasis on the relationships between objects, emotions, and affect in archaeological and sociological research. The historical intersections between materiality and emotions, however, have remained under-theorised, particularly with respect to artefacts that have continuing resonance over extended periods of time or across cultural and geographical space. Feeling Things addresses the need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for the analysis of objects and emotions in European history, with special attention to the need to track the shifting emotional valencies of objects from the past to the present, and from one place and cultural context to another. The collection draws together an international group of historians, art historians, curators, and literary scholars working on a variety of cultural, literary, visual, and material sources. Objects considered include books, letters, prosthetics, religious relics, shoes, stone, and textiles. Many of these have been preserved in international galleries, museums, and archives, while others have remained in their original locations, even as their contexts have changed over time. The chapters consider the ways in which emotions such as despair, fear, grief, hope, love, and wonder become inscribed in and ascribed to these items, producing 'emotional objects' of significance and agency. Such objects can be harnessed to create, affirm, or express individual relationships, as, for example, in religious devotion and practice, or in the construction of cultural, communal, and national identities.

Passion for the Game

Author : Sylvia Day
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1405912332
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Passion for the Game written by Sylvia Day and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the notorious Lady Winter, seduction and duplicity are required to survive. Cunning and precision are the tools of pirate Christopher St. John. Pitted against one another, they are a surprise waiting to happen.

Jane Austen's England

Author : Roy Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101622865
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen's England written by Roy Adkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.

Good Society

Author : Vee Hendro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648150527
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Good Society written by Vee Hendro and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Society is a tabletop roleplaying game where you create an Austen novel with your friends.

Queens of Georgian Britain

Author : Catherine Curzon
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473858542
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Queens of Georgian Britain written by Catherine Curzon and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of four royal women that’s “as inherently fascinating as it is exceptionally informative . . . an extraordinary read from beginning to end” (Midwest Book Review). Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for over a century. Hailing from Germany, these occasionally mad, bad, and infamous sovereigns presided over a land in turmoil. Yet what of the remarkable women who were crowned alongside them? From the forgotten princess locked in a tower to an illustrious regent, a devoted consort, and a notorious party girl, the queens of Georgian Britain lived lives of scandal, romance, and turbulent drama. Whether dipping into politics or carousing on the shores of Italy, Caroline of Ansbach, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Caroline of Brunswick refused to fade into the background. Queens of Georgian Britain offers a chance to step back in time and meet the women who ruled alongside the Georgian monarchs, not forgetting Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the passionate princess who never made it as far as the throne. From lonely childhoods to glittering palaces, via family feuds, smallpox, strapping soldiers, and plenty of scheming, these are the queens who shaped an era. “A lively deep dive into the lives of four women regularly overshadowed by their husbands . . . Curzon is a captivating writer and this book is an impressive addition to her existing Georgian books.” —The Lazy Historian “Curzon has a breezy, colloquial style . . . an easy and informative read.” —Historical Novels Review

Don't Tempt Me

Author : Sylvia Day
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758290640
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Don't Tempt Me written by Sylvia Day and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Georgian-era romance by the #1 bestselling author of the Crossfire Series, an Irish soldier-for-hire falls for an enigmatic French femme fatale. SOMETIMES TEMPTATION . . . A hardened mercenary as adept in bed as in battle, Simon Quinn can have any woman he wants, but he prefers those who know the rules of the game. That way it’s easier to leave them behind... CAN’T BE AVOIDED But Lysette Rousseau is one female he can’t figure out. Beautiful, sensual, seductive, she should be the perfect match for Simon, yet something about her ties him in knots. Bold and manipulative one time, sweetly innocent the next, she is an enigma bound to bring trouble . . . impossible to resist. Praise for Don’t Tempt Me “Day crafts several intricate love stories (for a mother and twin daughters) that seamlessly slip from one scorching romance to another. Readers will devour every word of this daringly original, boldly sensual and brilliantly plotted book—and they’ll be breathless by its riveting conclusion.” —RT Book Reviews, Top Pick “Set against the backdrop of pre-Revolutionary France, this bold, erotic tale of passion and revenge features a cast of colorful characters and a complex and intriguing plot. It will appeal most to readers who like their romantic adventures fast paced and laced with earthy language and graphic sex.” —Library Journal “Dangerous liaisons and deceptions are the key ingredients in the latest addition to Day’s sexy, espionage-steeped Georgian historical-romance series.” —Booklist

London's Sinful Secret

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781429919562
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book London's Sinful Secret written by Dan Cruickshank and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands. In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in Marylebone, to the squalid alleys around Charing Cross to the coffee houses, where prostitutes plied their trade, to the work of artists such as William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. Cruickshank uses memoirs, newspaper accounts and court records to create a surprisingly bawdy portrait of London at its most-mannered and, for the first time, exposes its secret, sinful underside. "A lively work of social history, full of surprises and memorable characters." - Kirkus Reviews

Vanity

Author : Jane Feather
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553572482
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Vanity written by Jane Feather and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking pockets as her only means of survival, Octavia Morgan realizes that she has made a terrible mistake when she targets Lord Nick, the most notorious highwayman in England, who vows to ensnare Octavia's passions.

The Black Moth

Author : Georgette Heyer
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513276921
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Black Moth written by Georgette Heyer and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Moth (1921) is a historical romance novel by Georgette Heyer. Initially devised as a series of stories for her younger brother Boris, who suffered from hemophilia, The Black Moth became Heyer’s debut novel following its discovery by her father, who recognized its merits and sought publication. Published in Britain and the United States, The Black Moth was a commercial success that launched the career of one of twentieth-century England’s most popular writers of fiction. Set during the Georgian era of the 1750s, the story follows Lord Jack Carstares, a disgraced nobleman who turns to a life of crime after taking the blame for his brother’s persistent dishonesty at cards. Branded a cheater and a thief, Jack briefly flees England before returning under the name of Sir Anthony Ferndale. Forced into the shadows, he becomes a highwayman notorious for robbing the carriages of the rich. Following his father’s death and his brother’s ascent to the head of the family estate, Jack is caught while robbing the carriage of a man who turns out to be Miles O’Hara, an old friend and Justice of the Peace. Arrested, Jack is forced to reveal his identity, and is promptly forgiven. Retaining his disguise and unready to rejoin the social life of England’s elite, Jack becomes embroiled in a scandal involving the abduction of Miss Diana Beauleigh, whom he rescues from the wicked Duke of Andover. Unable to remain anonymous for much longer, Jack is pulled by his innate goodness toward the friends and family he has long since left behind, allowing him one last chance at redemption. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Georgette Heyer’s The Black Moth is a classic work of English historical romance reimagined for modern readers.

Ask For It

Author : Sylvia Day
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758290616
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Ask For It written by Sylvia Day and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Bared to You: “Plenty of sizzling passion and dangerous drama.”—Booklist Though he’s experienced much as an agent to the Crown, nothing incites Marcus more than the primal hunger roused by his former fiancée, Lady Elizabeth. It's been years since she jilted him for another man, but that only means there's a lot to catch up on, a lot to make up for, and that he's going to enjoy every sweet moment. . . The same drive and passion that sent her into another man's arms is what brings Elizabeth back to Marcus. Her attraction to him is the one thing she fears, but she's run out of options. Resisting is impossible. But does she have the courage to surrender everything? Praise for Sylvia Day and her novels "Bared to You obliterates the competition. . .unique and unforgettable." -Joyfully Reviewed "The undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance." --Teresa Medeiros

Standish

Author : Erastes
Publisher : Lethe Press
ISBN 13 : 1590214277
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Standish written by Erastes and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the post-Napoleonic years of the 1820s, "Standish" is a tale of two menNone man discovering his sexuality and the other struggling to overcome his traumatic past. Painting a picture of homosexuality in Georgian England, this is a love story of how the decisions of two men affect their journey through Europe and through life.

The Gentleman's Daughter

Author : Amanda Vickery
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300177216
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Gentleman's Daughter written by Amanda Vickery and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-11 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in provincial England, this book provides an account of the lives of genteel women in Georgian times.

Fortune's Son

Author : Emery Lee
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402256450
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Son written by Emery Lee and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lee brings the atmosphere of the Georgian era to life with lush descriptions that beg the reader to see, hear, feel and touch it all."—RT Book Reviews She is the ultimate gamble...And he'll risk everything on a toss of the dice Beautiful young widow Susannah, Lady Messingham, refuses to belong to any man again. Until she inadvertently draws handsome Lord Philip Drake into an exhilarating game of terrifying stakes and unimaginable rewards. Philip is a seasoned gambler who knows all the tricks and isn't afraid to use them. He'd do anything for Susannah, including sacrificing his honor and his freedom. Praise for The Highest Stakes: "A sweeping tale of romance, betrayal, intrigue, and the power of true love." - RT Book Reviews "Compelling...Allow yourself to be transported." - The Racing Journal "Brava to Ms. Lee on a brilliant first novel. Well-rounded characters, excellent research, realistic dialogue, and a unique plot." - Romance Reviews Today "Lee writes beautifully and passionately ... the plot moves at a rapid clip with extraordinary twists and turns, leaving the reader wanting to know more." - Rundpinne

Devilish

Author : Jo Beverley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101579811
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Devilish written by Jo Beverley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RITA award-winning novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of An Unwilling Bride. “Today’s most skillful writer of intelligent historical romance” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) takes readers into the heart of the most mysterious, most powerful, most seductive Georgian aristocrat of them all: the Marquess of Rothgar. Two of the strongest wills in England clash when Lord Rothgar is commanded by the king to escort the fiercely independent Diana Westmount, Countess of Arradale, to London. Though Rothgar has become a master at resisting temptation, Diana proves a challenge to his steely resolve. A moment of peril—and a night of passion—melt his icy self-control, and he must find the strength to surrender his heart to another... “Jo [Beverley] has truly brought to life a fascinating, glittering, and sometimes dangerous world.”—New York Times–bestselling author Mary Jo Putney “Beverley beautifully captures the flavor of Georgian England. . . . Her fast-paced, violent, and exquisitely sensual story is one that readers won’t soon forget.”—Library Journal “Another triumph.”—Affaire de Coeur