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The Diaries of A. L. Rowse

Author : A. L. Rowse
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571272983
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Diaries of A. L. Rowse written by A. L. Rowse and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian, poet and autobiographer, A. L. Rowse (1903-1997) moved through the worlds of academia, politics and publishing; those he encountered upon the way came in for witty and vitriolic diatribes in his journals. On their first publication in 2003 these diaries were already widely anticipated - Rowse himself had suggested in his lifetime that there would be much to scandalise and entertain in them, and they didn't disappoint this prediction. Winston Churchill, G. M. Trevelyan, T. S. Eliot and John Betjeman are among the famous characters who came under his gaze, and whose conversations and opinions of one another he recorded. Compiled and edited by Richard Ollard, the diaries stretch from the 1920s - when Rowse first left his native Cornwall to study at Cambridge - to the 1960s, a fascinating and personal study of the most turbulent decades in recent history.

The Diaries of A.L. Rowse

Author : Alfred Leslie Rowse
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Diaries of A.L. Rowse written by Alfred Leslie Rowse and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 2003 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.L. Rowse's journals extend over the greater part of the 20th century. Born in 1903, the son of a poor, virtually illiterate Cornish china-clay worker, he became one of the most prolific authors of his time and one of the most read. For 50 years a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (its first working-class entrant) he seized the opportunities offered in scholarship, in literature, in politics and above all in public controversy.

Homosexuals in History

Author : Alfred Leslie Rowse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Homosexuals in History written by Alfred Leslie Rowse and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, King James I, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev, Ernst Rohm, and E.M. Forster. The legacies they left to the world are as varied as their talents and temperaments, yet all shared a single predilection -- homosexuality. Now one of the most foremost historians of our time provides a thought provoking look at these and other homosexual men of genius in society, politics, literature and the arts in this first serious study of the problems and contributions of the homosexual through the ages.

The Elizabethan Renaissance: The life of the society

Author : Alfred Leslie Rowse
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780684126821
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Renaissance: The life of the society written by Alfred Leslie Rowse and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cornish Childhood

Author : A. L. Rowse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781850221241
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book A Cornish Childhood written by A. L. Rowse and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mysterious William Shakespeare

Author : Charlton Ogburn
Publisher : Dodd Mead
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious William Shakespeare written by Charlton Ogburn and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1984 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the material gathered by the author's investigation into the identity of the real Shakespeare--Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.

William Shakespeare

Author : Alfred Leslie Rowse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Alfred Leslie Rowse and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ma'am Darling

Author : Craig Brown
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780008203634
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Ma'am Darling written by Craig Brown and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An original, memorable and substantial achievement' TLS'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' ObserverShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. To her friends, she was witty and regal. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. 'Brown has been our best parodist and satirist for decades now ... Ma'am Darling is, as you would expect, very funny; also, full of quirky facts and genial footnotes. Brown has managed to ingest huge numbers of royal books and documents without losing either his judgment or his sanity. He adores the spectacle of human vanity' Julian Barnes, Guardian

Dr Simon Forman

Author : Judith Cook
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr Simon Forman written by Judith Cook and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charismatic, volatile and ambitious, Simon Forman rose from a poor country upbringing in Wiltshire, via a slave-apprenticeship in Salisbury and a spell as a servant in Oxford to become one of the wealthiest doctors in London. He was doctor to the giants of the theatre and his 'playbook' contains the first eye-witness accounts of Shakespeare's plays. Like most doctors he also cast horsocopes for all and sundry: from soldiers, courtiers and sailors to women on the look-out for marriage. On the fringes of intrigues at Court, he was linked to Sir Walter Raleigh's 'School of the Night' and to the famous Overbury poisoning case, starring the beautiful Countess of Essex.This lively account of his life sees him denounced as a quack, a crank, and an astrologer who used black magic - yet his meticulous case-notes are now a key source for Elizabethan medicine. Judith Cook also reveals his private life, deciphering, for the first time, his intimate coded diary detailing all his law cases and battles with the establishment and particularly his hectic sex life, a record of promiscuity as vivid as Pepys or Bowell. (One of his affairs was with Elizabeth Lanier, perhaps the 'Dark lady' of S

A.L. Rowse and Cornwall

Author : Philip Payton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A.L. Rowse and Cornwall written by Philip Payton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Adult Non-Fiction section of the Holyer an GofAwards 2006, and Overall Winner of the Holyer an Gof Trophy, this gripping biographical study explores the immensely complicated relationship that existed between A.L. Rowse and his native Cornwall. Rowse's books, A Cornish Childhood and Tudor Cornwall, remain in strong demand, essential reading for the general reader and historian alike, and for all those who know and love Cornwall. By shedding new light on this complex character, Payton invites a greater understanding of the broader issues of Cornish identity as well as assessing Rowse's highly original contribution to the writing of British and Cornish history.

Contesting the Renaissance

Author : William Caferro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444391321
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Contesting the Renaissance written by William Caferro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studies

Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet

Author : Susanne Woods
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195352343
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet written by Susanne Woods and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aemilia Bassano Lanyer published poetry to and for women in 1611, at the height of the largely misogynistic reign of James I. Her verse complements and extends our view of her contemporaries, such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne, whose work in turn provides a context for her unique and engaging voice. This book situates Lanyer within the rich tradition of Jacobean poetry.

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Author : Adam Sisman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297858564
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Hugh Trevor-Roper written by Adam Sisman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the great historian whose career was made and unmade by Hitler. Hugh Trevor-Roper's life is a rich subject for a biography - with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy and moments of high farce. Clever, witty and sophisticated, Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. Until his downfall, he seemed to have everything: wealth and connections, a chair at Oxford, a beautiful country house, an aristocratic wife, and, eventually, a title of his own. Eloquent and versatile, fearless and formidable, he moved easily between Oxford and London, between the dreaming spires of scholarship and the jostling corridors of power. He developed a lucid prose style which he used to deadly effect. He was notorious for his acerbic attacks on other historians, but ultimately tainted his own reputation with a catastrophic error when he authenticated the forged 'Hitler Diaries'. Adam Sisman sheds new light on this fascinating and dramatic episode, but also shows that there was much more to Hugh Trevor-Roper's career than the fiasco of the Hitler Diaries hoax that became his epitaph. From wartime code-breaking to grilling Nazis while the trail was still fresh in 1945 (and finding Hitler's will buried inside a bottle), to his wide-ranging interests, his snobbery and his malice, his formidable post-war feuds with Evelyn Waugh, Tawney, Toynbee, Taylor and many others, and his secret and passionate affair with an older, married woman. A study in both success and failure, Adam Sisman's biography is a revealing and personal story of a remarkable life.

The Expansion of Elizabethan England

Author : A. L. Rowse
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299188245
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book The Expansion of Elizabethan England written by A. L. Rowse and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventurers and merchants (as well as the poets and playwrights) of the Elizabethan age are legendary. This work by the eminent historian A. L. Rowse argues that, under Elizabeth I, England began its expansion and eventual enormous impact upon the world. In this era, England amplifed its ideas and influence on international affairs and it also expanded physically into Cornwall and Ireland, made first contact with Russia and the Canadian North, and opened trade with India and the Far East. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Portillo.

Letters from Oxford

Author :
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9780753822050
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Oxford written by and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly readable and revealing letters, full of malice and gossip, from a master historian When they met in 1947 Trevor-Roper, a young historian at Christ Church, Oxford, was 33. Berenson, the world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely curious about the world. Trevor Roper promised to write to him and his letters continued until Berenson's death in in 1959. Elegantly constructed, beautifully and precisely written, they are shot through with high-octane malice, sharp judgements and blistering comments, and many wonderfully funny episodes. Trevor-Roper was an intellectual heavyweight, but subjects range widely: several brilliant set-pieces on Oxford college elections, books, journalism, publishing, politics (postwar Europe, ex-Nazis and collaborators, the Cold War, Suez, etc), history and history-writing, personal life (including marriage to Earl Haig's daughter Alexandra after her messy divorce), travel, gossip, and so on. He has a memorable journey on a pilgrims' bus in Persia, goes behind the Iron Curtain to meet Communist dignitaries and speeds in his glamorous grey Bentley to visit duchesses in the Scottish borders. Figures in the letters include Evelyn Waugh, Isaiah Berlin, A.L. Rowse, Anthony Eden, Gerald Brenan, A.J.P.Taylor, Arnold Toynbee, Dimitri Shostakovitch, C.S. Lewis and Harold Macmillan.

Roy Strong

Author : Roy Strong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851242825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Roy Strong written by Roy Strong and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly half a century, Sir Roy Strong has enjoyed a high public profile in the arts world in Britain. Yet remarkably little is known about his life before the Swinging Sixties when he burst upon the scene as the revolutionary trendy young director of the National Portrait Gallery, aged thirty-one. In this book he recounts for the first time the story of his social origins and the roots of his life-long passion for the culture and history of England. He describes his childhood home in a suburban North London terrace, revealing himself to have been a shy solitary child of melancholy temperament, painting Elizabethan miniatures and Shakespearean set designs in his teens. It follows him through grammar school and university, where together with a generation of postwar 'meritocrats' like A.S. Byatt and Alan Bennett, his passion for learning was awakened and nourished. We catch glimpses of seminal experiences, such as his first outings to the theatre, opera and ballet, and his first trip abroad to Italy, which was to have a lasting influence on his sensibilities. He explores key, sometimes painful relationships with his family, his school teacher with whom he had a lifelong correspondence, and his debt to such people as C.V. Wedgwood, A.L. Rowse, Frances Yates and Cecil Beaton. In it we glimpse a vanished world dominated by class and hierarchy up which he climbed. As a backdrop we have the transformation of London from the drab, postwar world of the 1950s to the epicentre of fashion in the 1960s, and the development of Sir Roy's distinctive sartorial style, inspired by the burgeoning shops on Carnaby Street. Richly illustrated with drawings, letters, photographs and other archival material, this is an honest and compelling portrait of a young man about to step into the limelight of the British cultural scene he helped to modernize and in which he played a leading role.

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose

Author : Kenneth Rose
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474601561
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose written by Kenneth Rose and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph 'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary Review Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over seventy years. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the beating heart of the national elite for decades. He was capable of writing substantial history, such as his priceless material on the abdication crisis from conversations with both the Duke of Windsor and the Queen Mother. Yet he maintained sufficient distance to achieve impartial documentation while working among political, clerical, military, literary and aristocratic circles. Relentless observation and a self-confessed difficulty 'to let a good story pass me by' made Rose a legendary social commentator, while his impressive breadth of interests was underpinned by tremendous respect for the subjects of his enquiry. Brilliantly equipped as Rose was to witness, detail and report, the first volume of his journals vividly portrays some of the most important events and people of the last century, from the bombing of London during the Second World War to the election of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman Prime Minister, in 1979.