Download or read book The Ladies of Alderley written by Baroness Maria Josepha Stanley Stanley and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1967 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ladies of Alderley Being the Letters Between Maria Josepha Lady Stanley of Alderley and Henrietta Maria Stanley During the Years 1841 1850 Edited by Nancy Mitford Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by Maria Josepha STANLEY (Baroness Stanley of Alderley.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Ladies of Alderley being the Letters between Maria Josepha Lady of Stanley of Alderley and Henrietta Maria Stanley during the years 1841 1850 written by Maria Josepha Stanley Of Alderley and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ladies of Alderley written by Baroness Maria Josepha (Holroyd) Stanley Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ladies Af Alderley written by Baroness Maria Josepha Stanley of Alderley and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The ladies of Alderley written by Lady Maria Josepha Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ladies of Alderley Being the Letters Between Maria Josepha Lady Stanley of Alderley and Her Daughter In law Henrietta Maria Stanley During the Years 1841 1850 written by m. j. lady Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stanleys of Alderley written by Nancy Mitford and published by London : H. Hamilton. This book was released on 1968 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of letters by and about the Stanley of Alderley family written in the middle of the last century ranges more widely than its predecessor, The ladies of Alderley, but Miss Mitford's comment on the first applies equally to its successor: 'it is a picture of a world past and gone ... an extraordinarily clear and detailed picture of real people, carefully drawn'.
Download or read book The ladies of alderley edited by nancy mitford written by Nancy Mitford and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Six written by Laura Thompson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sisters’ life choices and the savage sociopolitical currents that fueled them.” – Tina Brown, The New York Times Book Review The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they became prominent as “bright young things” in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark—and very public—differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives—recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson—hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after WWII. The Six was previously published as Take Six Girls.
Download or read book Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain written by K. D. Reynolds and published by Oxford Historical Monographs. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of gender and power in Victorian Britain is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy in the 19th century. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it explores the roles of aristocratic women in public life, from their country estates to the salons of Westminster and the royal court. Reynolds also shows that a partnership of authority between men and women was integral to aristocratic life, thus making an important contribution to the "separate spheres" debate. Moreover, she reveals in full the crucial role that these women played at all levels of political activity--from local communities to the national electoral process. The book is both a lively portrait of women's experiences in modern Britain and a corrective to the view of the upper-class Victorian woman as a passive social butterfly.
Download or read book Between Women written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.
Download or read book The House of Percy written by Bertram Wyatt-Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996-10-31 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the novels of Walker Percy represent some of the most prominent work in 20th-century Southern fiction, the Percy family itself has a history that is arguably as compelling as anything he could have created. Behind Percy's prose lurks a legacy of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and suicide that spans two centuries. In this compelling biography, Wyatt-Brown skilfully combines intensive research and telling insights to produce the unforgettable story of this gifted family. 48 halftones.
Download or read book The Gladstone Diaries written by W. E. Gladstone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1969-02-15 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Generations of Women Historians written by Hilda L. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on generations of early women historians, seeking to identify the intellectual milieu and professional realities that framed their lives. It moves beyond treating them as simply individuals and looks to the social and intellectual forces that encouraged them to study history and, at the same time, would often limit the reach and define the nature of their study. This collection of essays speaks to female practitioners of history over the past four centuries that published original histories, some within a university setting and some outside. By analysing the values these early women scholars faced, readers can understand the broader social values that led women historians to exist as a unit apart from the career path of their male colleagues.
Download or read book Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen written by Rory Muir and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of course, love itself, motivate her characters and continue to fascinate readers today. But what were love and marriage like in reality for ladies and gentlemen in Regency England? Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts as well as novels of the period. From the glamour of the ballroom to the pressures of careers, children, managing money, and difficult in-laws, love and marriage came in many guises: some wed happily, some dared to elope, and other relationships ended with acrimony, adultery, domestic abuse, or divorce. Muir illuminates the position of both men and women in marriage, as well as those spinsters and bachelors who chose not to marry at all. This is a richly textured account of how love and marriage felt for people at the time--revealing their unspoken assumptions, fears, pleasures, and delights.
