Download or read book Marguerite Countess of Blessington written by Susan Matoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonnière and author. This study enriches our knowledge of the social, political, and literary history of the post-Romantic and early Victorian era. It examines Lady Blessington’s close friendships with politicians and writers, especially Edward Bulwer Lytton and Benjamin Disraeli. Statesmen, diplomats, writers, and artists were her constant visitors, as they found her friendship and conversation invaluable to their professional and social lives. The circumstances of a life lived in luxury and indulgence changed upon the death of Lady Blessington’s husband, forcing her to support herself and several dependents with her writing. Throughout this biography, Lady Blessington’s voice is evident and should reawaken scholarly and popular interest in her voluminous works. She wrote twenty novels in genres including silver-fork fiction, psychological drama, and verse narrative. She also produced four travel books, many short stories, and numerous poems and edited the popular literary gift annuals Heath’s Book of Beauty and The Keepsake. This book reveals the humanity of a woman whom contemporary gossip considered scandalous because of her alleged relationship with her stepdaughter’s estranged husband, Count D’Orsay. Lady Blessington’s struggle in the face of many challenges is an inspiring story of individual strength. It is a tale of a woman whose legacy of integrity, determination, and sheer hard work provides us with enlarged insights into an era and society often overlooked by history.

Download or read book The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington written by Richard Robert Madden and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington written by Richard Robert Madden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. R. Madden's 1855 three-volume biography of the Countess of Blessington documents her brilliant literary salon and her eventual financial ruin.

Download or read book Silver Fork Novels 1826 1841 Vol 4 written by Harriet Devine Jump and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels in this collection present a vivid picture of late-Regency society clinging to modes of behaviour which soon became obsolete and mark an important point of transition to Victorian cultural values.

Download or read book The Literary Life and Corrispondence of the Countess of Blessington R R Madden written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Classified Index to the London Catalogue of Books Published in Great Britain 1816 to 1851 written by Catalogues and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The London catalogue of books published in Great Britain 1816 to 1851 compiled by T Hodgson written by London catalogue and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Department of English Prose Fiction which Belong to the Public Library of Cincinnati written by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finding List of Books Except Fiction written by Denver Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Examiner written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finding List of English Prose Fiction in the Chicago Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Juvenile Books in the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of Forbidden Books written by Henry Spencer Ashbee and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this final volume of the 1877 work that established him as England's leading authority on pornography, Henry Spencer Ashbee describes scores of "curious, uncommon and erotic books" that were banned or otherwise prohibited from legitimate sale during the Victorian era. Included in this volume are such "gentlemen only" titles as Intrigues and Confessions of a Ballet Girl, The Pleasures of Kissing and Being Kissed, and the infamous Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This catalog of mostly forgotten works is an invaluable-and highly entertaining-resource for bibliophiles, students of erotica, and collectors of Victoriana. British book collector, travel writer, and bibliographer HENRY SPENCER ASHBEE (1834-1900), aka Pisanus Fraxi, is thought by some to have authored the notorious Victorian sexual memoir My Secret Life.

Download or read book Catalogue of Books in English French and German written by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finding list for novels in the Mercantile library of Philadelphia written by Mercantile library company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: