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Author : Lady Elizabeth Hamilton
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Illustrious Lady written by Lady Elizabeth Hamilton and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1980 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lady Elizabeth Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Illustrious Lady a Biography of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine & Duchess of Cleveland written by Lady Elizabeth Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book My Lady Castlemaine written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295517053
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book My Lady Castlemaine written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : PHILIP WALSINGHAM. SERGEANT
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ISBN 13 : 9781033214756
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (147 download)
Download or read book MY LADY CASTLEMAINE written by PHILIP WALSINGHAM. SERGEANT and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Walsingham 1872- Sergeant
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015387539
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (875 download)
Download or read book My Lady Castlemaine written by Philip Walsingham 1872- Sergeant and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Margaret Gilmour
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Great Lady written by Margaret Gilmour and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah-Beth Watkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399000950
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Charles II's Illegitimate Children written by Sarah-Beth Watkins and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles II had at least twelve illegitimate children that we know of. Although his queen, Catherine of Braganza, fell pregnant several times she was not able to bear any children to full term. The king, who was known for his many mistresses, had his first recognized child out of wedlock in 1649; the child was James Croft who would become Duke of Monmouth and mastermind of an infamous rebellion. Not all of his children would gain such notoriety but they would live long and full lives creating a Stuart bloodline that descends to the present day. There was Nell Gywn’s son, Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St Albans who was present at the siege of Belgrade in 1688. The French mistress, Louise de Keroualle’s son, Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond who was an early patron of cricket. Catherine Pegge’s son, Charles Fitzcharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth who was a colonel in the King’s Own Royal Regiment and lost his life in Tangier and Moll Davis’ daughter Mary Tudor, Countess of Derwentwater who separated from her husband because she refused to be a Catholic. Not to mention Charles’s offspring by Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine and later Duchess of Cleveland – there was Anne who had an affair with one of her father’s mistresses, Charles who succeeded to the dukedom of Cleveland, Henry who became vice-admiral of England, George who was in the secret service in Venice, Barbara who after a torrid affair with the Earl of Arran gave birth to illegitimate twins and became a nun in France and Charlotte, who became Countess of Lichfield and had eighteen children! And then there are the stories of other children like James de la Cloche and Charlotte Boyle whose births and lives are shrouded in mystery and rumor. This book will bring to life the king’s many illegitimate children and tell their stories.
Author : Bridget G. MacCarthy
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814755186
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The Female Pen written by Bridget G. MacCarthy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had B.G. MacCarthy's criticism been available, Showalter's A Literature of Their Own would have been a very different kind of book...In some ways, contemporary could be ten years ahead if we had started the climb from MacCarthy's groundwork." —Maggie Humm, University of East London Back in print for the first time since the 1940's, this classic work of pre-feminist literary criticism is a challenging and authoritative assessment of women's contributions to English literature. B. G. MacCarthy, widely praised for the originality of her scholarship, challenges the dominant picture of mascaline literary history created by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis. Written with crisp humor and irony, her exploration of women's writing. Focusing on a wide range of authors including Lady Mary Wroath, Eliza Hayward, Aphra Behn, Maria Edgeworth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Inchbald, Margaret Cavendish and Jane Austen- illustrates that these women attempted almost every genre of fiction, enriched many, and initiated some of the most important. Often savagely witty, The Female Pen discusses a vast array of fictional forms, including picturesque, moralistic, oriental, domestic, and gothic novels.
Author : Andrea Zuvich
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526753081
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain written by Andrea Zuvich and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert in Stuart England examines the sexual lives of Britons in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in this frank, informative, and revealing history. Acclaimed Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich explores the sexual mores of Stuart Britain, including surprising beliefs, bizarre practices, and ingenious solutions for infertility, impotence, sexually transmitted diseases, and more. Along the way, she reveals much about the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior. Zuvich sheds light not only on the saucy love lives of the Royal Stuarts, but also on the dark underbelly of the Stuart era with histories of prostitution, sexual violence, infanticide, and sexual deviance. She looks at everything from what was considered sexually attractive to the penalties for adultery, incest, and fornication. Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain touches on the fashion, food, science, art, medicine, magic, literature, love, politics, faith and superstition of the day.
Author : Elizabeth Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019909361X
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Feringhees written by Elizabeth Hamilton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stiff upper lip, steely eyes and a cold heart is often how the English imperialist is pictured in popular imagination. Drawing from memoirs, commentaries and family letters, Elizabeth Hamilton brings forth an alternative portrayal of her ancestors, Sir Robert Hamilton and Sir William Barton. Their careers in India are set against the momentous events of their times to present a different side of the colonialists of a quiet people, dedicated to the tradition of upholding the law and avoiding conflict. Volume I, The Proud Empire, traces the life of Sir Robert Hamilton, from the beginning of his career under the watchful eye of his father, up until his retirement. Occupying multiple roles such as the Resident of Indore and Agent to the Governor General in the Central Provinces, he is seen interacting with various prominent Indian figures such as the Rani of Jhansi, Tantya Tope and Nana Sahib. The picture of the arrogant imperialist fades away to be replaced by that of someone keen to make a difference to the society he was working in, who encourages good governance, mends ties in the midst of escalating tensions and must recover cities occupied by insurgents, all the while shadowed by the burden of great personal losses. Volume II, The Straight Race, tracks Sir William Barton’s career in the early twentieth century. Starting in the Punjab and the North-West Frontier, he later served as Resident in the well-administered states of Mysore and Hyderabad, where he stood up to the Nizam, doing his best to set the administration on a less corrupt footing. Retirement did not deter Sir William’s close interest in Indian affairs; he returned twice on tour as an advisor to electrical companies and travelled with a Ministry of Supply mission during the Second World War. With three books and many articles for newspapers and journals on the subject, India remained an integral part of his life.
Author : Gary S. De Krey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137052287
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Restoration and Revolution in Britain written by Gary S. De Krey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles II was restored to the rule of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1660, less than twelve years after the execution of his father, Charles I, and the ensuing republican experiment in government. Popular at first, the Restoration nevertheless failed to provide lasting settlement in any of the British kingdoms. Restoration and Revolution in Britain examines the political history of these kingdoms, from the Interregnum through Britain's eighteenth-century rise to power. Written especially for students approaching the Restoration for the first time, this essential introduction: - Assesses the reasons for the failure of settlement in the reigns of Charles and of his brother, James II - Integrates the histories of Charles's different realms - Examines the many connections between politics and Protestant religious disagreements - Provides helpful historical context for understanding a range of contemporary authors such as Bunyan, Locke and Milton - Concludes with an examination of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 and explains why settlement was finally achieved through revolution rather than through restoration
Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429964227
Total Pages : 855 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book A Gambling Man written by Jenny Uglow and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness of the court to failed attempts at religious tolerance. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the "slippery sovereign," laid odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers. The theaters may have been restored, but the king himself was the supreme actor. Yet while his grandeur, his court, and his colorful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden. Charles II was thirty when he crossed the English Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, as spring after the long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no way to turn back, no way he could "restore" the old dispensation. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship had ended with his father's beheading. "Honor" was now a word tossed around in duels. "Providence" could no longer be trusted. As the country was rocked by plague, fire, and war, people searched for new ideas by which to live. And exactly ten years after he arrived, Charles would again stand on the shore at Dover, this time placing the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV of France. Jenny Uglow's previous biographies have won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and International PEN's Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. A Gambling Man is Uglow at her best: both a vivid portrait of Charles II that explores his elusive nature and a spirited evocation of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world on the brink of modernity.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W.R.H. Trowbridge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732636399
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Court Beauties of Old Whitehall written by W.R.H. Trowbridge and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Court Beauties of Old Whitehall by W.R.H. Trowbridge
Author : Patricia E. Sweeney
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Biographies of British Women written by Patricia E. Sweeney and published by Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
