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Author : Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715639467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (394 download)
Download or read book A History of Mistresses written by Elizabeth Abbott and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History Of Mistresses written by Elizabeth Abbott and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2003-03-29 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She has been known as the "kept woman," the "fancywoman," and the "other woman." The French acknowledge herexistence by remarking, "The chains of marriage are so heavy that it oftentakes three people to carry them." She is Jeanne Antoinette de Pompadour,and Simone de Beauvoir, not to mention Marilyn Monroe and Camilla Parker-Bowles.She is a mistress, and she has been – and is – very much apart of our humancultural history. But who is she, really? What is the true nature of themistress-lover relationship? How do women experience mistressdom? And where doeslove figure in all of this? Elizabeth Abbott, who made celibacy sexy in her acclaimed A History ofCelibacy, has the fascinating storehouse of answers in a deliciously richblend of history, personality and cultural study. In a lively and accessiblestyle, History of Mistresses draws intimate portraits of mistressesthroughout history, from Chinese concubines to Europe’s royal mistresses andthe clandestine consorts of (un)celibate clerics. Mobster molls, trophy dollsand modern mistresses are deconstructed, with often surprising results. Beyondthe personalities, some interesting themes emerge: the relationship betweenmistresses of colour and their married men; the coercion of Jewish women duringthe Holocaust; and a contemporary look at today’s "power"mistresses. From lust to love, from money to power, Abbott’s A History of Mistressesferrets out the motives and morals of these women, carrying the reader along ona journey that is hugely informative and always entertaining.
Author : Catherine Hewitt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250120667
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Mistress of Paris written by Catherine Hewitt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the United Kingdom by Icon Books Ltd"--Title page verso.
Author : Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021314
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper written by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. If mentioned at all, their relationship exists only as a salacious footnote in MacArthur's biography—a failed love affair between a venerated war hero and a young woman of Filipino and American heritage. Following Cooper from the Philippines to Washington, D.C. to Hollywood, where she died penniless, Gonzalez frames her not as a tragic heroine, but as someone caught within the violent histories of U.S. imperialism. In this way, Gonzalez uses Cooper's life as a means to explore the contours of empire as experienced on the scale of personal relationships. Along the way, Gonzalez fills in the archival gaps of Cooper's life with speculative fictional interludes that both unsettle the authority of “official” archives and dislodge the established one-dimensional characterizations of her. By presenting Cooper as a complex historical subject who lived at the crossroads of American colonialism in the Philippines, Gonzalez demonstrates how intimacy and love are woven into the infrastructure of empire.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192834591
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress, Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau written by Daniel Defoe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for students of English Literature, especially eighteenth-century, from sixth-form up.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The fortunate mistress. The history of the remarkable life of John Sheppard. A narrative of all the robberies, escapes, etc. of John Sheppard. A true relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal. 2v written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the life and vast variety of fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards call'd the Countess of Wintselsheim, in Germany, being the person known by the name of the Lady Roxana, in the time of King Charles II. By D. Defoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1740 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosamond de CLIFFORD (called Fair Rosamond.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The History of Fair Rosamond, the Beautiful Mistress of King Henry the Second, Etc written by Rosamond de CLIFFORD (called Fair Rosamond.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The fortunate mistress; or, A history of the life of Mademoiselle De Beleau, known by the name of the Lady Roxana written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unfortunate Concubine, Or, History of Jane Shore, Mistress to Edward IV. King of England ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosamond de CLIFFORD (called Fair Rosamond.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The History of Fair Rosamond, Mistress to Henry II., and Jane Shore, Concubine to Edward IV. Kings of England, Etc written by Rosamond de CLIFFORD (called Fair Rosamond.) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosamond de CLIFFORD (called Fair Rosamond.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unfortunate Concubines: the History of Fair Rosamond, Mistress to Henry II. and Jane Shore, Concubine to Edward IV., Kings of England, etc written by Rosamond de CLIFFORD (called Fair Rosamond.) and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Abbott
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590208765
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Mistresses written by Elizabeth Abbott and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lively and nuanced look at gender roles as they have been revealed by the lives of concubines and mistresses over the centuries” (Kirkus). She exists as both a fictional character and as a flesh-and-blood human being. But who is she, really? Why do women become mistresses, and what is it like to have a private life that is usually also a secret life? Is a mistress merely a wife-in-waiting, or is she the very definition of the emancipated, independent female? Elizabeth Abbott intelligently examines the motives and morals of some of history's most infamous and fascinating women, from antiquity to today. Drawing intimate portraits of those who have—by chance, coercion, or choice—assumed this complex role, Mistresses offers a rich blend of personal biography and cultural insight. “Ms. Abbott is delightfully indiscreet, with an eye for a good story and a colloquial style . . . She has done the ladies a service by bringing them out of the shadows.” —The Economist
Author : UNFORTUNATE CONCUBINES.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Unfortunate Concubines: Or The History of Fair Rosamond, Mistress to Henry II. And Jane Shore, Concubine to Edward IV ... Extracted from Eminent Records, and the Whole Illustrated with Cuts Suitable to Each Subject written by UNFORTUNATE CONCUBINES. and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn Morrow Long
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813042879
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House written by Carolyn Morrow Long and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-03-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the "Most Haunted" House in New Orleans The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron, has haunted the city of New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. When fire destroyed part of her home in 1834, the public was outraged to learn that behind closed doors Lalaurie routinely bound, starved, and tortured her slaves. Forced to flee the city, her guilt was unquestioned, and tales of her actions have become increasingly fanciful and grotesque over the decades. Even today, the Laulaurie house is described as the city 's "most haunted" during ghost tours. Carolyn Long, a meticulous researcher of New Orleans history, disentangles the threads of fact and legend that have intertwined over the decades. Was Madame Lalaurie a sadistic abuser? Mentally ill? Or merely the victim of an unfair and sensationalist press? Using carefully documented eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family letters, Long recounts Lalaurie's life from legal troubles before the fire and scandal through her exile to France and death in Paris in 1849. Themes of mental illness, wealth, power, and questions of morality in a society that condoned the purchase and ownership of other human beings pervade the book, lending it an appeal to anyone interested in antebellum history. Long's ability to tease the truth from the knots of sensationalism is uncanny as she draws the facts from the legend of Madame Lalaurie's haunted house.
Author : Ebe Minerva White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Woman in World History written by Ebe Minerva White and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fiona McDonald
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493892
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Other Women written by Fiona McDonald and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Women is the vivid account of those women who belonged to a separate part of society: in some ways invisible and socially unacceptable, but at times holding positions of influence and power, living in comfort and even luxury.The stories range from the many mistresses of Charles II – including Barbara Villiers who bore the king at least five children – to the liaison between Edward VII and Alice Keppel, greatgrandmother of the Duchess of Cornwall; from the passionate loves of great artists – Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and H.G. Wells – to the affairs of many other men of arts and letters.This book is not confined to the lovers of famous men, however: the author also charts the history of ‘ordinary’ mistresses, those who did not necessarily acquire wealth or wield influence. There are stories here of power and politics, freedom of speech and the rise from slum to palace. But, above all, they are stories of love.
