Author: Lewis Saul Benjamin
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Lady Suffolk and Her Circle
Author: Lewis Saul Benjamin
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Lady Suffolk and Her Circle
Author: Lewis Melville
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Women of Quality
Author: Ingrid H. Tague
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851159072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change. Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years followingthe Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics responded to a perceived crisis of gender relations by creating a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior in opposition to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women. Modern scholars have often portrayed this agenda as representing the rise of a middle-class ideology, but Ingrid Tague argues that the new rhetoric held enormous appeal for those women who would appear to be its greatest targets: wealthy, fashionable 'women of quality'. Using the correspondence and diaries of these women, Tague traces the ways in which they adopted, adapted, and exploited ideals of femininity. In their hands, feminine values could become powerful tools that enabled them to compete for status and reputation. Ironically, by identifying femininity with private, trivial concerns, these ideals created unique opportunities for elite women. Female participation in informal social and political activities placed women at the heart of aristocratic power in the early eighteenth century, even as they employed the language of wifely subordination and domesticity. Ingrid Tague is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver.
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851159072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change. Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years followingthe Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics responded to a perceived crisis of gender relations by creating a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior in opposition to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women. Modern scholars have often portrayed this agenda as representing the rise of a middle-class ideology, but Ingrid Tague argues that the new rhetoric held enormous appeal for those women who would appear to be its greatest targets: wealthy, fashionable 'women of quality'. Using the correspondence and diaries of these women, Tague traces the ways in which they adopted, adapted, and exploited ideals of femininity. In their hands, feminine values could become powerful tools that enabled them to compete for status and reputation. Ironically, by identifying femininity with private, trivial concerns, these ideals created unique opportunities for elite women. Female participation in informal social and political activities placed women at the heart of aristocratic power in the early eighteenth century, even as they employed the language of wifely subordination and domesticity. Ingrid Tague is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver.
Gilded Youth
Author: Tom Quinn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639365141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us—the royal family’s obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their parental duties to staff, goes back centuries. Gilded Youth looks at centuries of growing up aristocratic and royal—from Edward VII smashing up his schoolroom to Prince Andrew peeing on a stable lad’s shoes; from Princess Margaret putting horse manure in a footman’s pockets to Diana Spencer wearing crop tops, kissing a local village boy, and drinking cider in a bus shelter; from a teenage Prince Harry throwing up in the street to Prince William becoming completely obsessed with doing the right thing regardless of the feelings of his younger brother. Even Queen Elizabeth herself reacted oddly to her upbringing, becoming in many ways obsessively compulsive—as a child she insisted her shoes should always be positioned in the same place, her lunch set out exactly the same way each day, and that for tea she have jam pennies (small rounds of bread and jam), which she was still eating every afternoon into her nineties. The younger generation seem to insist they want a normal or ordinary upbringing for their children—because that goes down well with the public—but this is just window dressing. Gilded Youth looks at how, when it comes to their children, the British royal family is still behaving much as they did in the past.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639365141
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us—the royal family’s obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their parental duties to staff, goes back centuries. Gilded Youth looks at centuries of growing up aristocratic and royal—from Edward VII smashing up his schoolroom to Prince Andrew peeing on a stable lad’s shoes; from Princess Margaret putting horse manure in a footman’s pockets to Diana Spencer wearing crop tops, kissing a local village boy, and drinking cider in a bus shelter; from a teenage Prince Harry throwing up in the street to Prince William becoming completely obsessed with doing the right thing regardless of the feelings of his younger brother. Even Queen Elizabeth herself reacted oddly to her upbringing, becoming in many ways obsessively compulsive—as a child she insisted her shoes should always be positioned in the same place, her lunch set out exactly the same way each day, and that for tea she have jam pennies (small rounds of bread and jam), which she was still eating every afternoon into her nineties. The younger generation seem to insist they want a normal or ordinary upbringing for their children—because that goes down well with the public—but this is just window dressing. Gilded Youth looks at how, when it comes to their children, the British royal family is still behaving much as they did in the past.
Who's who Among Living Authors of Older Nations ...
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Covering the literary activities of living authors and writers of all countries of the world, except the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, Newfoundland, the Phillipine [!] islands, the West Indies, and Central America ...
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Covering the literary activities of living authors and writers of all countries of the world, except the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, Newfoundland, the Phillipine [!] islands, the West Indies, and Central America ...
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1740
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1740
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Reminiscences Written by Mr. Horace Walpole in 1788 for the Amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry, Now First Printed in Full from the Original Ms. with Notes and Index by Paget Toynbee ...
Author: Horace Walpole
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Catalogue[s]
Author: Sawyer, Chas. J., Ltd., London
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Beau Brummell; His Life and Letters
Author: Lewis Melville
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Category : Dandies
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : Dandies
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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News Notes of California Libraries
Author: California State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Volumes for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Volumes for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.