Автор: Matoff Susan Название: Marguerite, Countess of Blessington: The Turbulent Life of a Salonniere and Author ISBN: 1611495911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611495911 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 139390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonni re and author. This study enriches our knowledge of the social, political, and literary history of the post-Romantic and early Victorian era. It examines Lady Blessington's close friendships with politicians and writers, especially Edward Bulwer Lytton and Benjamin Disraeli. Statesmen, diplomats, writers, and artists were her constant visitors, as they found her friendship and conversation invaluable to their professional and social lives. The circumstances of a life lived in luxury and indulgence changed upon the death of Lady Blessington's husband, forcing her to support herself and several dependents with her writing. Throughout this biography, Lady Blessington's voice is evident and should reawaken scholarly and popular interest in her voluminous works. She wrote twenty novels in genres including silver-fork fiction, psychological drama, and verse narrative. She also produced four travel books, many short stories, and numerous poems and edited the popular literary gift annuals Heath's Book of Beauty and The Keepsake. This book reveals the humanity of a woman whom contemporary gossip considered scandalous because of her alleged relationship with her stepdaughter's estranged husband, Count D'Orsay. Lady Blessington's struggle in the face of many challenges is an inspiring story of individual strength. It is a tale of a woman whose legacy of integrity, determination, and sheer hard work provides us with enlarged insights into an era and society often overlooked by history.
Автор: Ranfurly Hermione Название: To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45 ISBN: 1447272773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447272779 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 48280.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Contending that James K. Baxter`s use of Greek myth is close to the heart of his poetic vision, this draws on the subject`s entire career, mounting the first-ever sustained investigation of his vast corpus of unpublished poems. Baxter`s mythic figures and ambiguous symbols are explored, to which he repeatedly returned in his attempts to establish patterns out of the `chaos` of his experiences.
Автор: Finch Название: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea ISBN: 1107068657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107068650 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 126720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first ever complete critical edition of the writings of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), including work printed in her lifetime and material left in manuscript form at her death. Textual analysis, based on print and manuscript copies in repositories across the United Kingdom and United States, reveals her revision processes and uses of manuscript and print. Extensive commentary clarifies her techniques, sources, contexts, and diction. A detailed essay traces the history of her works' reception and transmission. The result is a complete view of her achievements that will promote more accurate assessments of her contributions to literary and cultural shifts, including perspectives on literary value, women's equality, religion, and affairs of state. This second volume provides established texts of Finch's later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript, as well as uncollected poems and letters.
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