Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Publisher: Little Brown Uk
ISBN: 9780751506440
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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1689: the Resoration enabled the Morland family to restore their own fortune, but now the Jacobite rebellion brings another threat to their security. Annuciata Morland, fiercely loyal to the Stuart cause, follows her beloved king, James II, into exile. She leaves her gentle grandson, Matt, to oversee Morland Place in her absence. Without her wise presence, Matt finds himself in an arranged marriage to India Neville and at the mercy of a woman as heartless as she is beautiful. After a lonely and sheltered life he lurches between the exquisite pain of love and the torment of deep despair. When James III - the Chevalier - returns to claim the Stuart throne, the Morlands are reunited in one country. Death and defeat threaten them, but their loves and loyalty prove stronger than kingly ambitions.

Author: Gabriel Banat
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576471098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Banat, a concert violinist and teacher, describes the life of this virtuoso violinist, who is thought to be the earliest black European composer, born on his father's plantation on Guadeloupe.

Author: Simon Burrows
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441174044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psychologists and sexologists, and for most of the last century his gender transformation has been viewed through a Freudian lens. His cross-dressing, it was usually assumed, must have a psychosexual explanation. Until the second half of the twentieth century the terms 'Eonist' and 'Eonism' were the standard English words for transvestites and transvestism respectively, but 'Eonism' was also, thanks to Havelock Ellis, widely regarded as a psychological condition or compulsion. However, in the mid-twentieth century, new ideas about gender-identity disorders led to d'Eon being redefined not as a transvestite, but a transsexual - a person who considers their sex to have been 'misassigned'. The essays in this collection contribute to d'Eon's rehabilitation as a figure worthy of scholarly attention and display a variety of disciplinary approaches. Drawing on new research into d'Eon's life, this volume offers original and nuanced readings of how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time.

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Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Lucy Ellen Guernsey
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Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Category : Cellamare Conspiracy, 1718
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Samuel Shellabarger
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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A hungry wolf attends a performance of Swine Lake, performed by the Boarshoi Ballet, intending to eat the performers, but he is so entranced by the story unfolding on the stage that he forgets about his meal.

Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Languages : en
Pages : 452

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