Author: Thérèse-Louis Latour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Princesses, Ladies & Salonnières of the Reign of Louis XV
Author: Thérèse-Louis Latour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova
Author: Ekaterina R. Daškova
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"This memoir tell the story of a woman who at age eighteen played an important role in the coup that brought Catherine the Great to the throne. The relationship between these two women, often tense, is a central theme throughout this story. Dashkova, occupying the highly unusual position of both stateswoman and mother, also reveals her own path between the demands and limitations of the private and public spheres of her society. She provides a view of the expectations of Russian aristocratic women, the possibilities available to them, and the ways in which gender roles were conceived in the eighteenth century."--[book cover].
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822316213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"This memoir tell the story of a woman who at age eighteen played an important role in the coup that brought Catherine the Great to the throne. The relationship between these two women, often tense, is a central theme throughout this story. Dashkova, occupying the highly unusual position of both stateswoman and mother, also reveals her own path between the demands and limitations of the private and public spheres of her society. She provides a view of the expectations of Russian aristocratic women, the possibilities available to them, and the ways in which gender roles were conceived in the eighteenth century."--[book cover].
Marvellous Thieves
Author: Paulo Lemos Horta
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674545052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection is more Parisian than Persian, some of its most famous tales, including the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, appear nowhere in the original sources. Yet as befits a world where magic lamps may conceal a jinni and fabulous treasures lie just beyond secret doors, the truth of the Arabian Nights is richer than standard criticism suggests. “Marvellous Thieves, which draws on hitherto neglected sources, is a brilliant, fluent and original work of literary scholarship.” —Robert Irwin, Literary Review “This fine book...cogently probes an influential period in the knotted and at times sordid history of the Arabian Nights, serving as a fine example to those unraveling this promiscuous and forever malleable set of stories.” —Charles Shafaieh, Wall Street Journal “Intelligent and engrossing...The great merit of Horta’s book is that its interest always lies in the story of the story, in mapping out the complex network of the translators, editors and travellers behind the Arabian Nights, in ways that enrich our sense of this remarkable text.” —Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674545052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Although many of its stories originated centuries ago in the Middle East, the Arabian Nights is regarded as a classic of world literature by virtue of the seminal French and English translations produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Supporting the suspicion that the story collection is more Parisian than Persian, some of its most famous tales, including the stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, appear nowhere in the original sources. Yet as befits a world where magic lamps may conceal a jinni and fabulous treasures lie just beyond secret doors, the truth of the Arabian Nights is richer than standard criticism suggests. “Marvellous Thieves, which draws on hitherto neglected sources, is a brilliant, fluent and original work of literary scholarship.” —Robert Irwin, Literary Review “This fine book...cogently probes an influential period in the knotted and at times sordid history of the Arabian Nights, serving as a fine example to those unraveling this promiscuous and forever malleable set of stories.” —Charles Shafaieh, Wall Street Journal “Intelligent and engrossing...The great merit of Horta’s book is that its interest always lies in the story of the story, in mapping out the complex network of the translators, editors and travellers behind the Arabian Nights, in ways that enrich our sense of this remarkable text.” —Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education
The Princess Des Ursins
Author: Maud Cruttwell
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434404862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
For the first time, a complete life of the Princess des Ursins, who was the moving spirit in the succession of the Bourbons to the Throne of Spain.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434404862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
For the first time, a complete life of the Princess des Ursins, who was the moving spirit in the succession of the Bourbons to the Throne of Spain.
The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Author: Madame Campan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734015405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Madame Campan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734015405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Madame Campan
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete: Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
Author: Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465521380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Memoirs of the private life of Marie Antoinette, queen of France ... To which are added, recollections, sketches, and anecdotes, illustrative of the reigns of Louis xiv, Louis xv, and Louis xvi
Author: Jeanne Louise H. Campan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest
Author: Mary Anne Everett Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Princesses
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Princesses
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest
Author: afterwards GREEN WOOD (Mary Anne Everett)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest
Author: Mary Anne Everett Green [Geb. Wood]
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Princes
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Princes
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description