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Author |
: Hugh Tours |
Publisher |
: Frontline Books |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2020-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526770462 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526770466 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Letters of Emma Hamilton by : Hugh Tours
Emma, Lady Hamilton, rose from poverty to become a media celebrity, and her relationship with Admiral Nelson, and her renowned beauty, made her the most instantly-recognisable woman of her era, with the press following her every move. She was a friend of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, longed-after by the Prince of Wales, and was a high society fashion icon. Born in 1765, Emma was the daughter of the village blacksmith in Neston, Cheshire, who died just two months later, leaving the family in difficult circumstances. After failing to find a permanent position locally, Emma took the stagecoach to London and the start of her remarkable journey to international fame. Emma worked for various actresses at Dury Lane theatre, before becoming a dancer, a model and, later, a hostess. Her beauty brought her to the attention of Charles Grenville, the second son of the Earl of Warwick, who took her as his mistress, and became the model for the painter George Romney. These paintings thrust Emma into the social spotlight and she soon became London’s top celebrity. When Grenville needed to find a rich wife, Emma was passed onto Sir William Hamilton, British Envoy to Naples. The couple fell in love and were married in September 1791. When in Naples, Lady Hamilton, as she now was, became a close friend of Queen Maria Carolina, sister of Marie Antoinette. It was also in Naples that she met Admiral Nelson – and the great love affair began. Much has been written about this later period of her life, but with Hugh Tours making full use of the letters Emma wrote as well as those she received throughout her life, the fascinating story of her early years is also revealed. This is history as moving as a great tragic novel; most moving of all, being the return, after Trafalgar, of Emma’s last letter to Nelson, unopened.
Author |
: Robert Hamilton Vetch |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 542 |
Release |
: 1901 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105041368494 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life, Letters and Diaries of Lieut.-General Sir Gerald Graham ... by : Robert Hamilton Vetch
Author |
: Robert Clement Sconce |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 1861 |
ISBN-10 |
: NLS:V000667515 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life and Letters of Robert Clement Sconce, Formerly Secretary to Admiral Sir John Duckworth by : Robert Clement Sconce
Author |
: Karl Pearson |
Publisher |
: CUP Archive |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 1914 |
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: |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton: Birth 1822 to marriage 1853 by : Karl Pearson
Author |
: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 808 |
Release |
: 1839 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:600002924 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron by : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Author |
: Andrew D. Lambert |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 2014-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300154863 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300154860 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gates of Hell by : Andrew D. Lambert
From one of our foremost naval historians, the compelling story of the doomed Arctic voyage of the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, commanded by Captain Sir John Franklin. Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand books. Despite these preparations, the voyage ended in catastrophe: the ships became imprisoned in the ice, and the men were wracked by disease and ultimately wiped out by hypothermia, scurvy, and cannibalism. Franklin's mission was ostensibly to find the elusive North West Passage, a viable sea route between Europe and Asia reputed to lie north of the American continent. Lambert shows for the first time that there were other scientific goals for the voyage and that the disaster can only be understood by reconsidering the original objectives of the mission. Franklin, commonly dismissed as a bumbling fool, emerges as a more important and impressive figure, in fact, a hero of navigational science.
Author |
: Moore |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 782 |
Release |
: 1860 |
ISBN-10 |
: UBBS:UBBS-00129929 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by : Moore
Author |
: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 780 |
Release |
: 1844 |
ISBN-10 |
: GENT:900000030564 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Author |
: Thomas Wemyss Reid |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 566 |
Release |
: 1890 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HWKPK8 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (K8 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, First Lord Houghton by : Thomas Wemyss Reid
Author |
: Francis Edwards (Firm) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 750 |
Release |
: 1908 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044087956199 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Edwards's Military Catalogue by : Francis Edwards (Firm)