Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: History Press Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is an account of the Gordon Riots, one of the most violent outbreaks of popular protest in British history. In 1780, Lord George Gordon MP led 50,000 people to present a petition calling for the repeal of the 1778 Roman Catholic Relief Act. The demonstration turned into a riot.
King Mob
Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: History Press Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is an account of the Gordon Riots, one of the most violent outbreaks of popular protest in British history. In 1780, Lord George Gordon MP led 50,000 people to present a petition calling for the repeal of the 1778 Roman Catholic Relief Act. The demonstration turned into a riot.
Publisher: History Press Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is an account of the Gordon Riots, one of the most violent outbreaks of popular protest in British history. In 1780, Lord George Gordon MP led 50,000 people to present a petition calling for the repeal of the 1778 Roman Catholic Relief Act. The demonstration turned into a riot.
The Life of Lord George Gordon:
Author: Robert Watson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Life of Lord George Gordon, with a Philosophical Review of His Political Conduct
Author: Robert WATSON (M.D., F.R.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Gordon Riots
Author: Ian Haywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052119542X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A new and controversial perspective on the causes, personalities and consequences of the most devastating urban riots in British history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052119542X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A new and controversial perspective on the causes, personalities and consequences of the most devastating urban riots in British history.
The Life of Lord George Gordon: with a Philosophical View of His Political Conduct
Author: Robert Watson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
The Trial of Lord George Gordon
Author: Lord George Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Byron
Author: Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1444799878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1444799878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
The Private Life of Lord Byron
Author: Antony Peattie
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783524278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The great Romantic poet Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses, yet he never imagined he was ill. Instead, he rationalised his behaviour as a fight for spiritual freedom and made it the cornerstone of his heroic ideal, which was central to his work and to his life and his death. This fresh biographical study aims to explore neglected or misunderstood aspects of his private life to illuminate his writing, his affairs with women, his passion for Napoleon and his conflicted friendships with Coleridge and Shelley. This in turn leads to a new understanding of his masterpiece, Don Juan. 15 July 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of its first publication. Antony Peattie situates these patterns of behaviour in a vividly rendered contemporary world, culminating in Byron’s last days in Greece, where he tried to starve himself into heroic leadership but damaged his constitution, resulting in his death at the age of thirty-six.
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783524278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The great Romantic poet Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses, yet he never imagined he was ill. Instead, he rationalised his behaviour as a fight for spiritual freedom and made it the cornerstone of his heroic ideal, which was central to his work and to his life and his death. This fresh biographical study aims to explore neglected or misunderstood aspects of his private life to illuminate his writing, his affairs with women, his passion for Napoleon and his conflicted friendships with Coleridge and Shelley. This in turn leads to a new understanding of his masterpiece, Don Juan. 15 July 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of its first publication. Antony Peattie situates these patterns of behaviour in a vividly rendered contemporary world, culminating in Byron’s last days in Greece, where he tried to starve himself into heroic leadership but damaged his constitution, resulting in his death at the age of thirty-six.
The life of lord George Gordon: with a philosophical review of his political conduct
Author: Robert Watson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
The Trial of the Hon. George Gordon, Commonly Called Lord George Gordon
Author: Lord George Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description