Download or read book Letters to and from Henrietta Countess of Suffolk and Her Second Husband the Hon George Berkeley written by Henrietta Hobart Howard Countess of Suffolk and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of Mary Countess Cowper Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales 1714 1720 written by Countess Mary Clavering Cowper Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of Mary Countess Cowper Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales written by Mary Countess Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of Mary Countess Cowper Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales 1714 1720 Edited by the Hon C S Cowper With a portrait written by Mary COWPER (Countess Cowper.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beau Monde written by Hannah Greig and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in 18th-century London Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity. But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than simply being well dressed. Fashion denoted membership of a new type of society--the beau monde, a world where status was no longer determined by coronets and countryseats alone but by the more nebulous qualification of metropolitan 'fashion'. Conspicuous consumption and display were crucial; the right address, the right dinner guests, the right possessions, the right jewels, the right seat at the opera. The Beau Monde leads us on a tour of this exciting new world, from court and parliament to London's parks, pleasure grounds, and private homes. From brash displays of diamond jewellery to the subtle complexities of political intrigue, we see how membership of the new elite was won, maintained--and sometimes lost. On the way, we meet a rich and colourful cast of characters, from the newly ennobled peer learning the ropes and the imposter trying to gain entry by means of clever fakery, to the exile banned for sexual indiscretion. Above all, as the story unfolds, we learn that being a Fashionable was about far more than simply being 'modish'. By the end of the century, it had become nothing less than the key to power and exclusivity in a changed world.
Download or read book Poets Through Their Letters From the Tudors to Coleridge written by Martin Seymour-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women of Quality written by Ingrid H. Tague and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change. Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years followingthe Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics responded to a perceived crisis of gender relations by creating a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior in opposition to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women. Modern scholars have often portrayed this agenda as representing the rise of a middle-class ideology, but Ingrid Tague argues that the new rhetoric held enormous appeal for those women who would appear to be its greatest targets: wealthy, fashionable 'women of quality'. Using the correspondence and diaries of these women, Tague traces the ways in which they adopted, adapted, and exploited ideals of femininity. In their hands, feminine values could become powerful tools that enabled them to compete for status and reputation. Ironically, by identifying femininity with private, trivial concerns, these ideals created unique opportunities for elite women. Female participation in informal social and political activities placed women at the heart of aristocratic power in the early eighteenth century, even as they employed the language of wifely subordination and domesticity. Ingrid Tague is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Edward Young 1683 1765 written by Edward Young and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 1971 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Mistresses of George I II written by Catherine Curzon and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George I arrived in England he found a kingdom in turmoil. Mistrustful of the new monarch from Hanover, his subjects met his coronation with riots. At George’s side was his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenberg, whilst his ex-wife languished in prison. Known as the Maypole thanks to her eye-catching figure, Melusine was the king’s confidante for decades. She was a mother to his children and a queen without a crown. George II never forgave his father for tearing him from his mother's arms and he was determined to marry for love, not duty. Though his wife, Caroline of Ansbach, proved to be a politically gifted queen, George II turned to another for affection. She was Henrietta Howard, the impoverished Countess of Suffolk, and she was desperate to escape her brutish husband. As the years passed, the royal affair became a powerplay between king and queen and the woman who was mistress to one and servant to another. Melusine and Henrietta's privileged position made them the envy of every courtier. It also made them a target of jealousy, plotting and ambition. In the tumultuous Georgian court, the bedroom and the throne room weren't so far apart.
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Courtiers written by Lucy Worsley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace-paintings you can see at the palace today-The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III , and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty.
Download or read book The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay Vol 5 written by William Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". This work shows how, spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen. It states that these unique manuscripts held at Trinity College, Cambridge, are most revealing of all his writings. Volume 5 includes entries from 1 January 1857–23 December 1859 and an Index.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Cornubiensis Comprising a supplementary catalogue of authors lists of Acts of Parliament and Civil war tracts c and an index to the contents of the 3 vols written by George Clement Boase and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Cornubiensis written by George Clement Boase and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Additional letters Index written by Alexander Pope and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
