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Author : Allen Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Royal Whore: Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine written by Allen Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Holloway Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451221346
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Royal Harlot written by Susan Holloway Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1660: Ready to throw off a generation of Puritan rule, all England rejoices when Charles Stuart returns to reclaim the throne. Among those welcoming him is young Barbara Villiers Palmer, a breathtaking Royalist beauty whose sensuality and clever wit instantly captivate the handsome, jaded king. Though each is promised to another, Barbara soon becomes Charles's mistress and closest friend, and the uncrowned queen of his bawdy Restoration court. Rewarded with titles, land, and jewels, she is the most envied and desired woman in England--and the most powerful. But the role of royal mistress is a precarious one, and Barbara's enemies and rivals are everywhere in the palace.
Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290560573
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)
Download or read book My Lady Castlemaine; Being a Life of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, Afterwards Duchess of Cleveland written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Sarah-Beth Watkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399000977
Total Pages : 226 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 226 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 : Patricia Campbell Horton
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380017133
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Royal Mistress written by Patricia Campbell Horton and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1977-09 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191550892
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Writing Lives written by Kevin Sharpe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography appears to thrive as never before; and there clearly remains a broad readership for literary biography. But the methods and approaches of recent criticism which have contributed rich insights and asked new questions about the ways in which we interrogate and appreciate literature have scarcely influenced biography. Biography as a form has been largely unaffected by either new critical or historical perspectives. For early-modern scholars the biographical model, fashioned as a stable form in the eighteenth century, has been, in some respects, a distorting lens onto early-modern lives. In the Renaissance and early-modern period rather the biography's organic and developmental narratives of a coherent subject, lives were written and represented in a bewildering array of textual sites and generic forms. And such lives were clearly imagined and written not to entertain or even simply to inform, but to edify and instruct, to counsel and polemicize. It is only when we understand how early moderns imagined and narrated lives, only that is through a full return to history and an exact historicizing, that we can newly conceive the meaning of those lives and begin to rewrite their histories free of the imperatives and teleologies of Enlightenment. In Writing Lives literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of ideas and visual media, currently engaged both with early modern conceptions of the life and our own conceptualizing of the biographical project, reflect on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions.
Author : Stephen S. Webb
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307824497
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Lord Churchill's Coup written by Stephen S. Webb and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated by crusading religion, Webb now argues that both England and its American social experiments were the underdeveloped elements of an empire emerging on both sides of the Atlantic and that the pivotal moment of that empire, the so-called “Glorious Revolution,” was in fact a military coup driven by religious fears. In a vigorous narrative, Webb populates this formative period of the Anglo-American past with colorful and commanding characters. At the center is John Churchill. We see him rise from page boy to earl of Marlborough, winning battlefield glory, influence, and promotion; and his corresponding rise from ensign of the English army taking control of the destiny of the later Stuart monarchs of Britain and America. Webb shows us Churchill increasingly alarmed by the Catholicizing course of his patron, James II, and becoming instrumental in the organization of a successful coup to protect Anglicanism and the constitution. We see the resulting alliance with William of Orange, the Protestant champion of Europe, quickly turn sour as William makes himself king; and we see Churchill, now transformed into imperial politician, once again in power—able to secure the succession of Queen Anne and negotiate the terms of resumption of war against France. Throughout, Webb makes it clear that at the heart of Churchill’s ascent and actions is his vision of America as a decisive factor in the world war between England and France for impersonal supremacy. As the book ends, Churchill’s American agenda thus becomes central to the war aims of the Grand Alliance.
Author : James William Johnson
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461702
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book A Profane Wit written by James William Johnson and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.
Author : Hannah Lavery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317027671
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration English Literature written by Hannah Lavery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable form of poetry in the longer tradition of erotic elegy. Hannah Lavery’s central claim is that the impotency motif is adopted by poets in recognition of its potential to signify satirically through its use as symbol and allegory. By drawing together analysis of works in the tradition, Lavery shows how the impotency motif is used to engage with anxieties as to what it means to enact ’service’ within political and social contexts. She demonstrates that impotency poems can be seen on one level to represent bawdy escapism, but on the other to offer positions of resistance and opposition to social and political concerns contemporary to a particular time. Whilst the link between the 'Imperfect Enjoyment' poems by Ovid and Rochester is well known, Lavery here looks further back to the origins of the concept of male impotency as degradation in the works of earlier Roman poets. This is an important context for considering how the impotency poem then first appears in the French and English vernaculars during the sixteenth century, leading to translations and adaptations throughout the seventeenth century. Lavery's close readings of the poems consider both the nature of the literary form, and the political and social contexts within which the works appear, in order to chart the intertextual development of the impotency poem as a distinct form of writing in the early modern period.
Author : Megan Matchinske
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521508673
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Women Writing History in Early Modern England written by Megan Matchinske and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title investigates and documents fascinating accounts written by 17th-century Englishwomen, which explore the shifting relationships between past and future.
Author : Charles Carlton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000875423
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Royal Mistresses written by Charles Carlton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Royal Mistresses provides an innovative way of looking at the development of British monarchy, and at the same time investigates the relationship between sex and power. Charles Carlton focuses not so much on the amorous activities of the mistresses of British monarchs as on their influences on those monarchs and on society at large. Ranging from the early medieval period to the late 1990s, he shows that a monarch’s illicit sexual life sheds light on his character and reign. It is no coincidence that Henry I, Charles II, and Edward VII, who were successful with their mistresses were also successful in their reigns, while the divorced John and the lovelorn Edward VIII failed Not surprisingly, the affairs of the sovereign’s heart have very often become the affairs of state. This book will be of interest to students of history and literature.
Author : Thomas A. Breslin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Great Anglo-Celtic Divide in the History of American Foreign Relations written by Thomas A. Breslin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positing that presidents shape America's foreign policy according to their ethnic heritage, this intriguing volume examines two groups that have dominated the presidency and the distinctly different agendas that have resulted. How is American foreign policy determined? The Great Anglo-Celtic Divide in the History of American Foreign Relations approaches that question from a fascinating perspective, arguing that, to a large extent, the answer lies in the ethnicity of the president. To make its point, this book examines the key foreign policies of American presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush and shows how their most important foreign policy decisions have tended to follow an ethnic pattern. The presidency has been dominated by Americans from English or Celtic backgrounds since the nation's founding, and as readers will discover, the foreign policies of the two groups have been very different. To document those differences, this book analyzes seven alternating periods of political domination by Anglo-Americans and Celtic-Americans, demonstrating how the cycle of change affected the shape and distinguishing characteristics of U.S. foreign policy in matters of war and peace and in relations with other countries.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1938 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Masters
Publisher : Constable Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mistresses of Charles II written by Brian Masters and published by Constable Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas A. Breslin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313073651
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Beyond Pain written by Thomas A. Breslin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breslin demonstrates that, for two millennia, states in East Asia, Europe, and America have successfully used pleasure to protect themselves and advance their interests, at a small fraction of the cost of militarized policies. Indeed, the Chinese demonstrated that pleasure-based policies primed a stream of highly profitable foreign trade and bolstered the state. Pleasure was feared because it was effective as both an offensive and defensive strategy. The colleens of Ireland and the bibis of India showed how inexorably effective pleasure could be in confounding militarily stronger invaders. In contrast, resorting to violence and pain generally undermined aggressive states. Cultural factors have shaped the choice of pleasures used. Food-centered China has used food, as well as sex and tourism, as tools in its foreign relations. Rome used wine; Byzantium, precious metals, banquets, and public spectacles; Venice, sex, money, and art; England, money and education. America has used sex, money, education, music, and tourism. Breslin's provocative text is based on a wide reading of secondary sources and some primary sources as well as a quarter century of teaching the history of foreign relations.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1058 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 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. E. Pritchard
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445648792
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Scandalous Liaisons written by R. E. Pritchard and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the most hedonistic, loose-living court in English history
