Download or read book Infamous Essex Women written by Dee Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are Essex Girls in a different light to the stereotype of modern public expectation. Murderers, mayhem-makers, swindlers, witches, smugglers and lustful adulteresses have played a part in the darker side of the county's history. From the thirteenth century onwards, Essex has produced more than its fair share of infamous women. Some got their comeuppance, some profited from their infamy and others were misguided, or with the benefit of hindsight, misjudged. The reader will find a plethora of women to hate, ridicule or secretly admire in Dee Gordon's new book. Some of the characters featured here might horrify or mystify, others will provoke empathy or disbelief, but all tales are authenticated by hours of research. Read, learn, squirm - and smile!
Download or read book Infamous Essex Women written by Dee Gordon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are Essex Girls in a different light to the stereotype of modern public expectation. Murderers, mayhem-makers, swindlers, witches, smugglers and lustful adulteresses have played a part in the darker side of the county's history. From the thirteenth century onwards, Essex has produced more than its fair share of infamous women. Some got their comeuppance, some profited from their infamy and others were misguided, or with the benefit of hindsight, misjudged. The reader will find a plethora of women to hate, ridicule or secretly admire in Dee Gordon's new book. Some of the characters featured here might horrify or mystify, others will provoke empathy or disbelief, but all tales are authenticated by hours of research. Read, learn, squirm - and smile!
Download or read book The Notorious Lady Essex written by Edward Le Comte and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The saucy sinner Fanny Howard, Countess of Essex, and the lascivious age in which she lived, have found their perfect biography in this witty, urbane history which is at once a racy love story, a true crime-and-trial tale, and a work of original scholarship about the corrupt court of King James I. When Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, She was succeeded on the English throne by James of Scotland, who repaid one of his many debts of gratitude to the great Howard family and to the memory of the late Earl of Essex by personally blessing a marriage between the Earl's son and Fanny, the titian-haired Howard daughter. Love was not involved, only politics, and since the bride was but thirteen, her boy-husband hardly older, the marriage remained unconsummated. But when Essex returned from his studies abroad to claim his bride and his due, Fanny had not only already had one flirtation (some said it was more than that) with the Prince of Wales, she had now really fallen in love with the King's handsome Scottish favorite, Robert Carr. With the aid of witchcraft, adolescent wiliness, and some very unaristocratic friends, Fanny engaged in a passionate affair with Carr while at the same time resisting her husband's advances. In the annulment proceedings of 1613 (the scandal of the season), she claimed to be a virgin still, her husband impotent, and with the King's influence, she secured her freedom. But something even more unwholesome was going on in that scandalous season: the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury while a prisoner in the Tower of London. This minor author and major adviser to Carr had seriously opposed Fanny's planned marriage to the favorite, and received in his soup and desserts her deadly revenge. That case broke open in 1615, and Fanny and her new husband, by then the Earl and Countess of Somerset, went on trial for murder. This is the first biography of a defiant teen-ager of 350 years ago who has to be called remarkable (whatever else she is called!), and to whose story Professor Le Comte brings both wit and sympathy, a novelist's interest in psychology, a scholar's respect for the known and lesser-known facts."--Dust jacket.
Download or read book The Notorious Lady Essex written by Edward Le Comte and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invention of Essex written by Tim Burrows and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essex Girls written by Sarah Perry and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah Perry celebrates their courage and vivacity.' Hilary Mantel A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent Essex Girls are disreputable, disrespectful and disobedient. They speak out of turn, too loudly and too often, in an accent irritating to the ruling classes. Their bodies are hyper-sexualised and irredeemably vulgar. They are given to intricate and voluble squabbling. They do not apologise for any of this. And why should they? In this exhilarating feminist defence of the Essex girl, Sarah Perry re-examines her relationship with her much maligned home county. She summons its most unquiet spirits, from Protestant martyr Rose Allin to the indomitable Abolitionist Anne Knight, sitting them alongside Audre Lorde, Kim Kardashian and Harriet Martineau, and showing us that the Essex girl is not bound by geography. She is a type, representing a very particular kind of female agency, and a very particular kind of disdain: she contains a multitude of women, and it is time to celebrate them.
Download or read book Bad Girls from History written by Dee Gordon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “lively” study of female lawbreakers across centuries and cultures is “chock full of disquieting stories and truly twisted personalities” (Booklist). Organized A-to-Z under six categories, this book offers insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries and different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds from the poverty-stricken to royalty, who have defied law and order and social taboos. Read about mistresses, murderers, smugglers, pirates, prostitutes, and fanatics with hearts and souls that feature every shade of black (and gray!). From Cleopatra to Ruth Ellis, from Boudicca to Bonnie Parker, from Lady Caroline Lamb to Moll Cutpurse, from Jezebel to Ava Gardner—as well as less familiar names like Victorian brothel-keeper Mary Jeffries, American gambler and horse thief Belle Starr, and La Voisin, the seventeenth-century Queen of all Witches in France—you’ll find a variety of women from the daring and outrageous to the desperate to the downright evil. Wicked? Misunderstood? Naïve? Foolish? Predatory? Manipulative? Or just rebellious? Read their stories and decide. “[A] rollicking survey of 100 female renegades . . . this compendium of historical trivia is a lot of fun to read.” —Publishers Weekly Includes photos and illustrations
Download or read book A Notorious Woman written by Elizabeth J. Clapp and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her long career as a public figure in Jacksonian America, Anne Royall was called everything from an "enemy of religion" to a "Jackson man" to a "common scold." In her search for the source of such strong reactions, Elizabeth Clapp has uncovered the story of a widely read woman of letters who asserted her right to a political voice without regard to her gender. Widowed and in need of a livelihood following a disastrous lawsuit over her husband’s will, Royall decided to earn her living through writing--first as a travel writer, journeying through America to research and sell her books, and later as a journalist and editor. Her language and forcefully expressed opinions provoked people at least as much as did her inflammatory behavior and aggressive marketing tactics. An ardent defender of American liberties, she attacked the agents of evangelical revivals, the Bank of the United States, and corruption in government. Her positions were frequently extreme, directly challenging the would-be shapers of the early republic’s religious and political culture. She made many enemies, but because she also attracted many supporters, she was not easily silenced. The definitive account of a passionate voice when America was inventing itself, A Notorious Woman re-creates a fascinating stage on which women’s roles, evangelical hegemony, and political involvement were all contested.
Download or read book Essex Villains written by Johnnie Johnson and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of stories about the men and women of Essex who have become notorious for their villainy.
Download or read book Old and New London The city ancient and modern written by Walter Thornbury and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old and New London a Narrative of Its History Its People and Its Places written by George Walter Thornbury and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of Twelve Bad Women written by Arthur Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old and New London a Narrative of Its History Its People and Its Places The city ancient and modern written by Walter Thornbury and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Something Wicked this Way Comes written by Sherri Lynne Smith and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage written by Amy Kenny and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to delineate women as porous, polluting, and susceptible to their environment. This book draws on early modern medical texts to provocatively demonstrate how Shakespeare’s canon offers a unique agency to female characters via humoral discourse of the womb. Chapters discuss early modern medicine’s attempt to theorize and interpret the womb, specifically its role in disease, excretion, and conception, alongside passages of Shakespeare’s plays to offer a fresh reading of (geo)humoral subjectivity. The book shows how Shakespeare subversively challenges contemporary notions of female fluidity by accentuating the significance of the womb as a source of self-defiance and autonomy for female characters across his canon.
Download or read book Forgotten Royal Women written by Erin Lawless and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind-the-throne biographies of royal sisters, mothers, and others. It’s said that behind every great man is a woman, and what man is greater than the king? For centuries, royal aunts, cousins, sisters and mothers have watched history unfold from the shadows, their battlefields the bedchamber or the birthing room, their often short lives remembered only through the lens of others. But for those who want to hear them, great stories are still there to be told: the medieval princess who was kidnapped by pirates; the duchess found guilty of procuring love potions; the queen who was imprisoned in a castle for decades. Bringing thirty of these royal women out of the shadows, along with the footnotes of their families, this collection of bite-sized biographies will tell forgotten tales and shine much needed light into the darkened corners of women’s history—and reminds us that British history is more than just a chain of Edwards and Henrys and Georges.
Download or read book The World s Most Notorious Women written by Book Sales, Inc. and published by Booksales. This book was released on 2002 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles women from around the world whose actions have marked them as notorious, including Myra Hindley, Billie Jean King, Bonnie Parker, Catherine the Great, Alice Kyteler, Mata Hari, and Kittie Byron.
