Download or read book Memoirs of a Georgian Rake written by William Hickey and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Was William Hickey written by James R. Farr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes an example of life-writing, an autobiography that was written in the early nineteenth century and will appeal to readers of many disciplines who are interested in understanding the interconnectedness of memory, textual narrative, and ideas of selfhood. Moreover, this book reasserts the importance of the individual in history. It explains how personal narratives reveal the individual as a purposeful social actor pursuing particular objectives, but framed by cultural and social contexts, in this case by eighteenth-century London and Imperial India. The author of this autobiography, William Hickey, projects a sense of self formed by a combination of an interiorized self-consciousness (an awareness of himself as an autonomous individual, although not one prone to deep self-reflection) and a socially-turned self-fashioning. Like so many autobiographers of his time, Hickey’s self is realized through the production of a narrative, his self fixed and defined through the act of writing. As he wrote his memoirs, Hickey was engaged in purposeful textual representation to satisfy his perceived sense of place in that culture (above all, as a gentleman) while tacitly reflecting the constraints of that culture imposed upon the form and content of the text.
Download or read book Memoirs of Georgia written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amphibious Thing written by Lucy Moore and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Hervey was one of the most controversial figures of the Georgian age. The consummate courtier - strikingly handsome, elegant and witty - he was both the favourite of the Queen and right-hand man to Walpole. Painted by Hogarth, satirized by Fielding and Pope, and confidant of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hervey counted among his friends and enemies some of the most brilliant men and women of the age.
Download or read book The Georgian Era written by Clarke Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, Who Have Flourished in Great Britain John Churchill was born at Ash, in Devonshire, on the 24th of June, 1650. He was descended from the Councils of Poiton, who came over with William the Conqueror; and his more immediate ancestors were sufferers, for their loyalty, in the civil wars. He was educated, partly by his Father, Sir Winston Churchill, author of Divi Britannici, partly by a neighbouring clergyman of strict protestant principles and exemplary life, and, finally, at the school of St. Paul's, in London; where the plates in a work by Vegetius on the art of war, attracted his early notice and admiration. Sir Winston Churchill being clerk of the green cloth, found means to obtain for his son, and Arabella his daughter, an introduction to court; the former being appointed page of honour to the Duke of York, while the latter, after having for some time acted as an attendant on the person of the duchess, became mistress to the duke, by whom she had several children, one or whom was the famous Duke of Berwick. Young Churchill's passion for a military life was so kindled by the sight of reviews, which he was constantly witnessing, that when the Duke of York inquired what profession he preferred, he entreated, on his knees, for a pair of colours in the guards, which be appears to have procured; and, at the age of sixteen, quitted a voluptuous court to make his first essay in arms at Tangier, in Africa, then belonging to the British crown. His employment on this service has, however, been attributed to jealousy: the singular beauty of his person having, as some assert, attracted more than proper admiration from the Duchess of York; and, according to others, from the king's mistress, the Duchess of Cleveland, who presented him with 5,000; but not, as it appears, until after his first departure from court. It has, again, been surmised, with some shew of probability, that the gratification of his own passion for the army was procured at the expense of his sister's purity. He was soon recalled from Africa, made a captain of grenadiers, and, in 1672, accompanied the English auxiliaries, despatched under the Duke of Monmouth to assist the French, headed by Turenne and Conde, against the Dutch. Throughout the war, he volunteered his services on every occasion of danger. At the siege of Nimeguen, Turenne having laid a wager, that "the handsome Englishman," as Churchill was then termed by that eminent commander, would retake and defend a post with a small number of men, which another officer had abandoned, though supported by a strong detachment, he cheerfully undertook the service, and won the wager by his admirable gallantry. In the following year, he saved the life of Monmouth at the siege of Maestricht; and after having excited universal admiration by his intrepidity, and received the thanks of the French king at the head of the army, he returned to England, fraught with valuable military experience, in 1677. He was now made a lieutenant-colonel, as well as master of the robes, and gentleman of the bed-chamber to the Duke of York; and, in the following year, secretly married Sarah Jennings, the companion of Princess Anne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com"
Download or read book Redcoat written by Richard Holmes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the letters and diaries of the British soldiers who served as the backbone of the army from 1760 to 1860, this illuminating book is rich in the history of a fascinating era. of illustrations.
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Download or read book Iron Tears written by Stanley Weintraub and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This startling new history of the Revolutionary War, told for the first time from the perspective of both the colonists and the colonizers, demonstrates that for the Americans, it was a war of rebellion, for the British, it became their Vietnam.
Download or read book Historicizing Life Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe written by James R. Farr and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor provides significant common ground and offers a vehicle, both theoretical and practical, for a profitable synthesis of the two in a historical context. Echoing scholars from a wide-range of disciplines who recognize the uncertainty of the nature of the self, these essays question the notion of the autonomous self and the attendant idea of continuous identity unfolding in a unified personality. Instead, they suggest that the early modern self was variable and unstable, and can only be grasped by exploring selves situated in specific historical and social/cultural contexts and revealed through the wide range of historical documents considered here. The three sections of the volume consider: first, the theoretical contexts of understanding egodocuments in early modern Europe; then, the practical ways egodocuments from the period may be used for writing life-histories today; and finally, a wider range of historical documents that might be added to what are usually seen as egodocuments.
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Download or read book My Memoirs of Georgia Politics written by Rebecca Latimer Felton and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book MY MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA POLITICS written by Rebecca Latimer 1835-1930 Felton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book My Memoirs of Georgia Politics written by Rebecca Latimer Felton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Classic Serial on Television and Radio written by Robert Giddings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-02-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic serial, invented by BBC Radio Drama sixty years ago, survived and adapted itself to television, the arrival of colour and the global market in what has become a flood of classics with all channels competing for ratings and overseas sales. This richly detailed book traces these developments and analyses the genre's response to social, economic, technical and cultural changes, which have re-shaped it into the form we recognise today. The book contains considerable interview material with performers and media professionals.
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