The Life And Times Of Mary Dowager Duchess Of Sutherland
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Author |
: Catherine Layton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 447 |
Release |
: 2018-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527512924 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527512924 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Times of Mary, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland by : Catherine Layton
This definitive biography depicts one Victorian woman’s struggle to stay afloat in a rising tide of prurient scandalmongering and snobbery. Could it be that this woman’s character and circumstances informed Oscar Wilde’s social comedies? She was the daughter of a leading Conservative Oxford don, vilified as an arrogant fortune-hunter. Her liaison dangereuse with a Duke resulted in ostracism by Queen Victoria’s cronies, as well as protracted, widely publicised legal disputes with his family. One battle put her in Holloway Gaol for six weeks. Her supporters, over time, included Disraeli, the Khedival family of Egypt, the de Lesseps, and Sir Albert Kaye Rollit (a promoter of women’s suffrage, later her third husband). Her life and that of her family drew in British and European colonialism, and even Reilly, the “Ace of Spies”. Various previously untapped letters, diaries and journals allow the reader to navigate through the sensationalist fog of the primarily Liberal press of her time. The book will appeal to anyone interested in Victorian and journalism history, and gender and celebrity studies.
Author |
: Brenda Ayres |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 491 |
Release |
: 2022-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000782639 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000782638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture by : Brenda Ayres
The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture exposes, explores, and examines what Victorians once considered flagrant breaches of decorum. Infringements that were fantasized through artforms or were actually committed exceeded entertaining parlor gossip; once in print they were condemned as socially contaminative but were also consumed as delightfully sensational. Written by scholars in diverse disciplines, this volume: Demonstrates that spreading scandals seemed to have been one of the most entertaining sources of activities but were also normative efforts made by the Victorians to ensure conformity of decorum. Provides a broad spectrum of infractions that were considered scandalous to the Victorians. Identifies Victorian transgressions that made the news and that may still shock modern readers. Covers a gamut of moral infractions and transgressions either practiced, rumored, or fantasized in art forms. This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated in the nineteenth century while others were not, and what the controversies reveal about the human condition that persists beyond Victoria’s reign of propriety.
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Total Pages |
: 946 |
Release |
: 1913 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32437010762413 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Law Times by :
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Total Pages |
: 802 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:319510028004550 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Author |
: Nurzan Mohd. Wahie |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105210596404 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Glimpse of Life in London and of Times Past by : Nurzan Mohd. Wahie
"A clear insight of diplomatic life in London from the perspective of the wife of a [Malaysian] High Commissioner" ... [p. xi].
Author |
: K. Schutte |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2014-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137327802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137327804 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000 by : K. Schutte
Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.
Author |
: Guy Thorne |
Publisher |
: DigiCat |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2022-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547159834 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Acceptance by : Guy Thorne
This book is a biography of Frederick Nicholas Charrington. He was an English social reformer who renounced succession to a fortune of over £1 million in order to devote his life to temperance work. His father was a partner in the Charrington Brewery, one of London's biggest brewing companies. At the age of 19, Charrington had a conversion experience and became an Evangelical Christian. About a year later, while walking through Whitechapel, he saw a poorly dressed woman with her children begging her husband to leave a public house and give her money for food. The furious husband came out and knocked her into the gutter. Charrington went to help and was also knocked to the ground. Looking up, he saw his name on the sign above the pub.
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Total Pages |
: 604 |
Release |
: 1869 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89012924551 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Register, and Magazine of Biography by :
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: Thompson Cooper |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 582 |
Release |
: 1869 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:590831727 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Register, and magazine of biography [ed. by T. Cooper]. by : Thompson Cooper
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: Richard Bartholomew Mosse |
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Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1837 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:555011572 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament by : Richard Bartholomew Mosse