Download or read book The Diaries Of Charles Greville written by Edward Pearce and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria. Finally, in 1860, after shaking his head over the worrying triumphs of Garibaldi, he closed it, once and for all. The grandson of a duke, Greville looked with a level and scornful eye upon royalty. George was 'the most worthless dog that ever lived'; William 'the silliest old gentleman in his own dominions, but what can be expected of a man with a head like a pineapple?' The diaries roused Queen Victoria - 'an odd woman' - from the lethargy of her widowhood.She spoke of Greville's 'indiscretion, indelicacy, ingratitude toward friends, betrayal of confidence and shameful disloyalty'. Greville's circle included Talleyrand, Wellington, Macaulay, Sydney Smith, Princess Lieven, Lord Grey, Melbourne, Guizot and Disraeli, as well as 'jockeys, bookmakers and blackguards'.As Clerk of the Privy Council, Greville works for a compromise on the Reform Bill.He witnesses Covent Garden theatre burning down.His closest friend, Lord De Ros, is caught cardsharping. Visiting Balmoral, he finds Albert and Victoria living 'not merely like small gentlefolks, but like very small gentlefolks'. When cholera comes, he writes laconically of 'Mrs Smith, young and beautiful, taken ill while dressing for Church and dead by nightfall.' Not a chatterbox, Charles Greville brilliantly assembles everyone else's chatter. This is the intelligent voice of another age, an uneasy aristocrat catching history on the turn and looking dubiously at the future.
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Download or read book Memorandum on the Diaries of the Late Mr Charles Greville written by Charles Greville and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorandum on the Diaries of the Late Mr Charles Greville With Extracts Selected by H Reeve written by Charles Greville and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Greville Diary Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication Ed by Philip Whitwell Wilson London William Heinemann 1927 written by Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memorandum on the Diaries of the Late Mr Charles Greville written by Henry Reeve and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Greville Memoirs written by Charles Greville and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he Greville The Greville Memoirs by Charles Greville. Memoirs by Charles Greville.
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Download or read book The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV written by Richard Henry Stoddard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Greville Memoirs a Journal of the Reigns of King George IV King William IV and Queen Victoria written by Charles Greville and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greville Memoirs, a Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King William IV. and Queen Victoria by Charles Greville. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1902 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Download or read book The Greville Memoirs written by Charles Greville and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
