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Book Pleasures of Eliza Lynch Proof

Download or read book Pleasures of Eliza Lynch Proof written by Anne Enright and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Download or read book The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch written by Anne Enright and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano Lp̤ez in Paris, when she was nineteen and he was in Europe to recruit engineers for the first railroad in South America. He left several months later with a pregnant Eliza beside him. Reviled by Asuncin̤ society and the family of her lover, who never married her, Eliza nevertheless had her son baptized his heir. In less than a decade, Lp̤ez became dictator and plunged Paraguay into a conflict that would kill over half its population. By then Eliza was notorious-as both the angel of the battlefield, inspiring the troops, and the demon driving Lp̤ez's ambition-and when Lp̤ez was killed in battle, she buried him in a shallow grave dug with her own hands.

Book Eliza Lynch

Download or read book Eliza Lynch written by Michael Lillis and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping a desperate marriage at the age of 20, Eliza Lynch fled Ireland to Paris where her extraordinary beauty and intelligence won the attention of the soon-to-be dictator of Paraguay, Francisco Solano López. Although the couple never married, Eliza bore him seven children and was seen as the queen of Paraguay, adored by the public and admired for her glamour and sophistication. But Eliza and Francisco's love was damned with the outbreak of the infamous War of the Triple Alliance (1864–70), the bloodiest in South America's history. This is a unique love story, chronicling a romance that endured a desperate turn of fortunes, taking them from a life of royalty to a life on the run, and culminating with the now iconic image of Lynch burying both López and their eldest son in a shallow grave with her bare hands after they had been killed by Brazilian troops. Dubbed The Irish Evita, Eliza Lynch (born in Charleville, County Cork) was the most famous woman in all of South America in the nineteenth century. Her reputation was destroyed by the opposition in the wake of the War of the Triple Alliance; but in this story of wealth, war, love, loyalty, loss and, above all, survival, Eliza is revealed as a woman who showed extraordinary courage in the face a series of unspeakable horrors. The authors have discovered the truth about Eliza's Irish origins and the cruel deception of her marriage at the age of sixteen to a duplicitous French Army officer. They reconstruct the systematic invention of her image as a prostitute around her first meeting with Solano López in Paris in 1854. Eliza Lynch was a courageous woman who was adored by the ordinary women of Paraguay and who tried to help many victims of an appalling war. The paranoid López, on discovering that his family and colleagues had been conspiring against him, trusted only Eliza and their relationship became a love story of the damned. The book reveals why the Emperor of Brazil, against the advice of his generals, pursued López to his death in 1870; Eliza buried him and their eldest son in the jungle with her bare hands. Eliza defied her enemies in a pamphlet she published in 1875 – here translated for the first time – when she returned to face her enemies in Paraguay. The authors' exclusive access to the unpublished journals of Eliza's daughter-in-law shows how scurrilous writers in South America, Britain and the US finally broke her spirit and how she died a 'burnt-out case' in Paris in 1886. In 1961 a later dictator, General Stroessner, declared her the national heroine of Paraguay. This book restores her to her rightful place among the most remarkable and brave women in modern history. Now a subject of a new Irish documentary by Alan Gilsenan, the film that helps rescue one of the great Irish lives of the 19th century from obscurity while opening a fascinating window onto what is perhaps South America's least-known country and the apocalyptic conflagration that still haunts its society.

Book Narrative Strategies in the Reconstruction of History

Download or read book Narrative Strategies in the Reconstruction of History written by Ana Fernandes and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present. The focus is on authors such as A.S. Byatt, Pat Barker, Anne Enright, Tracy Chevalier and Ali Smith. The volume demonstrates and discusses parallels, shifts and transformations in the writing of these authors and in the rewriting of history in contemporary fiction by women authors.

Book Understanding Anne Enright

Download or read book Understanding Anne Enright written by Ana-Karina Schneider and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to both literary scholars and the general reader, Understanding Anne Enright is an introduction to the novels and stories of one of the most original and engaging contemporary Irish writers. It analyses developments in Enright’s writing, comparing the evolution of themes and forms from one book to another, contextualising her fiction, and interrogating the impact of concepts such as postmodernism, post-feminism and post-nationalism on the writing and reading of her work. It particularly follows the evolution of Enright’s treatment of the corporeality of women’s experiences and its correlation with the embodied language of her fiction. Thus, this book shows how Enright’s writing participates in the latest thematic and formal trends not only of Irish or British, but also of Western, literature.

Book Eliza Cook s Journal

Download or read book Eliza Cook s Journal written by Eliza Cook and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Do I Read Next  Volume 2 2003

Download or read book What Do I Read Next Volume 2 2003 written by Gale Group and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2004 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains descriptions of 1,245 books in nine fiction genres, including author or editor's name, publication information, story type, major characters, setting, plot summary, and more.

Book Invisible Country

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  • Author : Annamaria Alfieri
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2012-07-03
  • ISBN : 1250014964
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Invisible Country written by Annamaria Alfieri and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of City of Silver, a beautifully rich and puzzling historical mystery set in Paraguay, 1868 A war against Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay has devastated Paraguay. Ninety percent of the males between the ages of eight and eighty have died in the conflict and food is scarce. In the small village of Santa Caterina, Padre Gregorio advises the women of his congregation to abandon the laws of the church and get pregnant by what men are available. As he leaves the pulpit, he discovers the murdered body of Ricardo Yotté, one of the most powerful men in the country, at the bottom of the belfry. There are many suspects: Eliza Lynch, a former Parisian courtesan who is now the consort of the brutal dictator, Francisco Solano López, and who entrusted to Yotté the country's treasury of gold and jewels; López himself, who may have suspected his ally Yotté of carrying on an affair with the beautiful Eliza; Comandante Luis Menenez, local representative of the dictator, who competed with Yotté for López's favor, and a wounded Brazilian soldier who has secretly taken up with one of the village girls. Lynch is desperate to recover the missing gold, and the comandante is desperate to prove his usefulness to López. To avoid having an innocent person dragged off to torture and death, a band of villagers undertake to solve the crime, including Padre Gregorio, the village midwife, her crippled husband returned from combat, their spirited daughter, and a war widow. Each carries secrets they seek to protect from the others, while they pursue their quest for the truth. Lyrical, complex, and meticulously researched, Annamaria Alfieri's Invisible Country is an ingenious cross between Isabel Allende and Agatha Christie.

Book The Gathering

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  • Author : Anne Enright
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release : 2007-12-01
  • ISBN : 1555848079
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book The Gathering written by Anne Enright and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother in this “stunning” novel by the award-winning author of Actress (The Washington Post). The surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering for the wake of their wayward, alcoholic brother, Liam, drowned in the sea after filling his pockets with stones. He is the third of the twelve Hegarty siblings to die. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him—something that happened in their grandmother’s house in the winter of 1968. As prize-winning author Anne Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is an “wonderfully elegant and unsparing” epic of an Irish family (Los Angeles Times)—a novel about love and disappointment, how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. “Entrancing…a haunting look at a broken family stifled by generations of hurt and disappointment, struggling to make peace with the irreparable.”—Entertainment Weekly “A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly.”—Publishers Weekly “Her sympathy for her characters is as tender and subtle as Alice McDermott’s; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O’Brien’s. The Gathering is her best book.”—Colm Toibin “Hypnotic.”—Booklist (starred review)

Book Eliza Cook s Journal

Download or read book Eliza Cook s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish Reports

Download or read book The Irish Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FIRE AND POWDER

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  • Author : Paul House
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1326924079
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book FIRE AND POWDER written by Paul House and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Field Afar

Download or read book The Field Afar written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of My Girlhood

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  • Author : Theodora Elizabeth Lynch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1857
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Story of My Girlhood written by Theodora Elizabeth Lynch and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A woman s work  memorials of Eliza Fletcher  ed   really written  by C A  Salmond

Download or read book A woman s work memorials of Eliza Fletcher ed really written by C A Salmond written by Charles Adamson Salmond and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Years ago

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  • Author : Theodora Elizabeth Lynch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1865
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Years ago written by Theodora Elizabeth Lynch and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: