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Book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain

Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors Actresses Musicians Dancers Managers Other Stage Personnel in London 1660 1800

Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors Actresses Musicians Dancers Managers Other Stage Personnel in London 1660 1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the works already published, these latest volumes of the Biographical Dictionary deal with theatre people of every ilk, ranging from dressers and one-performance actors to trumpeter John Shore (inventor of the tuning fork) and the incomparable Sarah Siddons. Also prominent is Susanna Rowson, a novelist, actress, and early female playwright. Although born into a British military family, Rowson often wrote plays that dealt with patriotic American themes and spent much of her career on the American stage. The theatrical jewel of these volumes is the "divine Sarah" Siddons: "She raised the tragedy to the skies," wrote William Hazlitt, and "embodied to our imagination the fables of mythology, of the heroic and dignified mortals of elder time." She endured much tragedy herself, including a crippling debilitating illness and the deaths of five of her seven children. Siddons played major roles in both comedy and tragedy, not the least of which was a performance as Hamlet.

Book A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland written by Bernard Burke and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1871 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation

Download or read book Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation written by National Library of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Papers

Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le Fanu s Ghost

Download or read book Le Fanu s Ghost written by Gavin Selerie and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Gavin Selerie weaves together richly colored threads taken from Gothic storytelling, Irish politics and literature, feminist heroic history and the fascinating development of popular theatre. His dazzling kaleidoscope uses a varied sequence of verse forms: the effect is oral, brash, sparky, and yet grounded in a deep knowledge and love of the highest poetic tradition. LE FANU'S GHOST reveals, in a most original way, the wonderful cross-pollination of high and low, notorious and neglected, oral and literary, Gaelic and Faery lore, Ireland and England, and will give great pleasure to readers"-Marina Warner. "Selerie's nonfictional-fictional genealogical poetic quest into the life, friends, and relations of the Anglo-Irish author of Gothic thrillers, such as Carmilla and Uncle Silas, sometimes recalls the procedures of Melville in Moby-Dick, particularly the extracts supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian. Every contingent sound-bite of information has been arranged to perfection"-Susan Howe.

Book The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding

Download or read book The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding written by Henry Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important discoveries in private and public archives have recently brought to light many new letters by Henry Fielding (1707-54) and by his sister, the novelist and classicist Sarah Fielding (1710-68). Published here for the first time is their entire extant correspondence, edited with an Introduction and explanatory annotations - 77 letters from and to Henry Fielding written over the years 1727 to 1754, and 33 letters from and to Sarah Fielding written from 1749 to 1767. The collection illuminates Henry Fielding's activities as author, lawyer, and magistrate; and it is valuable as well for the light it throws on his character and personal relationships. Fielding scholars are already acquainted with the important letters to his cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, to his rival Samuel Richardson, to his friend George Lyttelton, and to his famous half-brother John Fielding, the latter written on the sad occasion of his final voyage to Lisbon. In this volume they will also find Fielding's correspondence with his great patron, the Duke of Bedford, and his agents - letters relating to Fielding's stewardship of the New Forest and to his appointments to the magistracy. The heart of this present collection, however - Fielding's correspondence with his closest friend, James Hermes' Harris - is completely new. Never before published, the Harris letters comprise the finest extant examples of Fielding's epistolary correspondence, a kind of familiar writing he practised reluctantly, but well. The Harris papers are equally valuable for what they reveal of Sarah Fielding's literary and scholarly interests and her relationship with her brother. Other letters in the collection - several also published here for the first time - will serve to clarify her friendships with Richardson, Garrick, and Elizabeth Montagu. Included in the Appendix are a half-dozen letters from members of the family that will be of interest to biographers of Henry and Sarah.Important discoveries in private and public archives have recently brought to light many new letters by Henry Fielding (1707-54) and by his sister, the novelist and classicist Sarah Fielding (1710-68). Published here for the first time is their entire extant correspondence, edited with an Introduction and explanatory annotations--77 letters from and to Henry Fielding written over the years 1727 to 1754, and 33 letters from and to Sarah Fielding written from 1749 to 1767.

Book The Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookman

Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY

Download or read book DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY written by SIDNEY LEE and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: