Author: Edna Healey
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144820772X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Here are portraits of three very different Victorian women, all of whom married men of exceptional talent, energy and genius. To be the wife of such frenetic, explosive characters as David Livingstone, Karl Marx or Charles Darwin, especially at this period in history, demanded rare qualities. Yet the late twentieth-century view of these women is perhaps best summed up in the frequently heard comment: 'I didn't know he had a wife.' The mid-nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented movement and upheaval. The revolutions of 1848 set Europe ablaze and sent swarms of political dissidents to seek freedom outside their homelands. Britain and her Empire were ruled by a young Queen Victoria, inspired by her enterprising, vigorous consort, Albert; it was a climate in which invention and discovery were encouraged. Men were creating new frontiers, both geographically and intellectually, and where they went their wives and families accompanied them.
Wives of Fame
Author: Edna Healey
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144820772X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Here are portraits of three very different Victorian women, all of whom married men of exceptional talent, energy and genius. To be the wife of such frenetic, explosive characters as David Livingstone, Karl Marx or Charles Darwin, especially at this period in history, demanded rare qualities. Yet the late twentieth-century view of these women is perhaps best summed up in the frequently heard comment: 'I didn't know he had a wife.' The mid-nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented movement and upheaval. The revolutions of 1848 set Europe ablaze and sent swarms of political dissidents to seek freedom outside their homelands. Britain and her Empire were ruled by a young Queen Victoria, inspired by her enterprising, vigorous consort, Albert; it was a climate in which invention and discovery were encouraged. Men were creating new frontiers, both geographically and intellectually, and where they went their wives and families accompanied them.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144820772X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Here are portraits of three very different Victorian women, all of whom married men of exceptional talent, energy and genius. To be the wife of such frenetic, explosive characters as David Livingstone, Karl Marx or Charles Darwin, especially at this period in history, demanded rare qualities. Yet the late twentieth-century view of these women is perhaps best summed up in the frequently heard comment: 'I didn't know he had a wife.' The mid-nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented movement and upheaval. The revolutions of 1848 set Europe ablaze and sent swarms of political dissidents to seek freedom outside their homelands. Britain and her Empire were ruled by a young Queen Victoria, inspired by her enterprising, vigorous consort, Albert; it was a climate in which invention and discovery were encouraged. Men were creating new frontiers, both geographically and intellectually, and where they went their wives and families accompanied them.
Eadwine's Canterbury Psalter
Author: Catholic Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Cardinal Basil Hume
Author: Basil Hume
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340756102
Category : Devotional literature
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This addition to Hodder's 'In My Own Words' series is a tribute to this remarkable man who always focused on his God, never on himself, and who has left a legacy of serenity and joy as a model for life as a Christian.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340756102
Category : Devotional literature
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
This addition to Hodder's 'In My Own Words' series is a tribute to this remarkable man who always focused on his God, never on himself, and who has left a legacy of serenity and joy as a model for life as a Christian.
Index saxonicus
Author: Walter de Gray Birch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The oldest English texts
Author: Henry Sweet
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The Anglo-Saxon version, from the historian Orosius
Author: Paulus Orosius
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
An Anglo-Saxon Reader
Author: James Wilson Bright
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
An Old English Grammar
Author: Eduard Sievers
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Five Minutes' Peace
Author: Jill Murphy
Publisher: Large Family
ISBN: 9781406361902
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Synopsis coming soon.......
Publisher: Large Family
ISBN: 9781406361902
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Synopsis coming soon.......
The Corpus Glossary
Author: W. M. Lindsay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107637813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Originally published in 1921, this book contains the text of the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, one of the oldest extant texts in English, and one of the longest in the Mercian dialect. Lindsay provides critical comparisons with other surviving glossaries at the bottom of each page and indices in both Latin and Anglo-Saxon. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the interaction between Latin and Anglo-Saxon dialects or the history of Latin scholarship in Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107637813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Originally published in 1921, this book contains the text of the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, one of the oldest extant texts in English, and one of the longest in the Mercian dialect. Lindsay provides critical comparisons with other surviving glossaries at the bottom of each page and indices in both Latin and Anglo-Saxon. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the interaction between Latin and Anglo-Saxon dialects or the history of Latin scholarship in Britain.