A Parliamentary History of the Ancient Borough of Horsham, 1295-1885

A Parliamentary History of the Ancient Borough of Horsham, 1295-1885 PDF Author: William Albery
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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A Parliamentary History of the Ancient Borough of Horsham, 1295-1885

A Parliamentary History of the Ancient Borough of Horsham, 1295-1885 PDF Author: William Albery
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Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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The Convention Parliament 1689: A Biographical Study of Its Members

The Convention Parliament 1689: A Biographical Study of Its Members PDF Author: George L. Cherry
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822

Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822 PDF Author: Kenneth Neill Cameron
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674806139
Category : Manuscripts, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1318

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The English Historical Review

The English Historical Review PDF Author: Mandell Creighton
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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History

History PDF Author:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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The Antiquaries Journal

The Antiquaries Journal PDF Author:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Women in British Politics, 1780-1860

Women in British Politics, 1780-1860 PDF Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349629898
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressure group politics are examined in depth (including Jewish civil rights and the campaigns against the Corn Laws and Indian widow-burning). The attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, domesticity, European nationalism, empire, and lifestyle enable this book to challenge not only the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women, but also the nature of political history itself.

Captain Medwin

Captain Medwin PDF Author: Ernest J. Lovell
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302816
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Here is the first biography of Thomas Medwin—literary adventurer, rascal, scholar, confidence man, successful fortune hunter, and bemused speculator on a grand scale in old Italian oil paintings. Poet, novelist, translator of Aeschylus, cousin and boyhood friend of the poet Shelley, he was a man of fiery temper, fierce hatreds, and enduring loves. Although an intimate friend of Lord Byron, he was so dangerous (or disreputable) that his Lordship warned Teresa Guiccioli, his last mistress, not to be alone in Medwin's company. Later, Medwin introduced Byron's daughter to her future husband, Lord Lovelace, and so determined the poet's line of descent. Friend of Washington Irving, gentleman of the old school, neglected Boswell of the nineteenth century, Medwin reported the conversations of Byron, Shelley, Trelawny, Hazlitt, Canova the sculptor, and others. His life and adventures light up little-known aspects of the nineteenth-century literary, military, social, and publishing world—in England, India, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany. Medwin served as midwife to the words of a dead man—Lord Byron—who returned to laugh and sneer at the living from the Captain's pages. The Conversations of Lord Byron thus became the most controversial book of the day, going through a dozen editions, in six countries, and being translated into French, German, and Italian. It aroused the wrath, indignation, or enthusiastic interest of such individuals as Goethe, Lady Byron, Lady Caroline Lamb, the Countess Teresa Guiccioli, John Cam Hobhouse (later Lord Broughton), Sir Walter Scott, John Murray, and Washington Irving. Medwin, whose long and adventurous life extended from the rise and flowering of the Romantic Period to the mid-Victorian Age (which he regarded as a dreary decline from the great heights of his youth), was an influence of the first magnitude in determining the early public image of Byron and the reputation of Shelley. This often amusing story, as engrossing as a novel, is drawn from all the available accounts, including many important sources never before published. In effect a new contribution to the biographical study of Byron and Shelley, it clarifies Medwin's relations not only with these two poets but also with many other important and interesting figures of the day.

More Books

More Books PDF Author: Boston Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902

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Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.

The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal

The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1274

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