Download or read book Dr Johnson s Mrs Thrale written by Hester Lynch Piozzi and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale written by Julia Allen and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale' challenges the popular image of Samuel Johnson as a man who favoured energetic discussion over physical exercise, enthroned in an armchair peering short-sightedly at a book. Thanks to the diarist and author Hester Thrale we have many anecdotes that connect Dr Johnson to a variety of sports, and Julia Allen, following Lytton Strachey's advice to attack her subject in unexpected places, uses entries from Dr Johnson's dictionary and anecdotes about the great man as her window into the world of eighteenth-century sport and exercise. Revealing a world both foreign and familiar, Allen takes the reader through a range of sports and activities, from boxing and cricket to dancing and coach travel to swimming, riding and skating. She reasserts women's place in eighteenth century sport, especially the luckier ones such as Mrs Thrale, and draws on medical treatises and reports to show how dangerous these sports could be, and to explore the theories upon which contemporary notions about health and exercise were based. Combined with fascinating biographies not only of Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale, but also of a host of eighteenth-century sporting celebrities, Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale gives a fascinating insight into a century where things were done very differently, often with dangerous consequences. This eccentric book brings together pieces of eighteenth-century life to create a vivid picture of the whole, making it essential reading for anybody interested in history or sport.
Download or read book Doctor Johnson and Mrs Thrale written by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The French Journals of Mrs Thrale and Doctor Johnson written by Hester Lynch Piozzi and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes Mrs. Thrale's French Journal, 1775, Dr. Johnson's French Journal, & Mrs. Piozzi's French Journey, 1784. Illus.
Download or read book Autobiography Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi Thrale written by Hester Lynch Piozzi and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mrs Thrale Afterwards Mrs Piozzi written by Leonard Benton Seeley and published by London : Seeley and Company, limited. This book was released on 1891 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book According To Queeney written by Beryl Bainbridge and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A stellar literary event . . . written with panache and an enviable economy . . . the biggest risk of her literary life' Margaret Atwood According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters. The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life's major work (he compiled the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend, According to Queeney reveals one of Britain's most wonderful characters in all his wit and glory. Above all, though, this is a story of love and friendship and brilliantly narrated by Queeney, Mrs Thrale's daughter, looking back over her life.
Download or read book Hester Lynch Piozzi Mrs Thrale written by James L. Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Hester Lynch Piozzi, an 18th-century Welsh diarist and author.
Download or read book The Letters of Mrs Thrale written by Hester Lynch Piozzi and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impossible Friendship written by Mary Hyde Eccles and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defining the World written by Henry Hitchings and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, this volume tells the story of Samuel Johnson's endeavor to create an authoritative English dictionary. Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure--his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Download or read book Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France Italy and Germany written by Hester Lynch Piozzi and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by David Nokes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.
Download or read book The Transit of Venus written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.
Download or read book Letters of Samuel Johnson written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dr Johnson Mrs Thrale s Tour in North Wales 1774 written by Samuel Johnson and published by Bridge Publications (CA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arthur Murphy written by John Pike Emery and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the most popular dramatist of his day, friend of Fielding, Dr. Johnson, David Garrick, and the Thrales.
