Author: P. Douglass
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403973342
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Lady Caroline Lamb , among Lord Byron's many lovers, stands out - vilified, portrayed as a self-destructive nymphomaniac - her true story has never been told. Now, Paul Douglass provides the first unbiased treatment of a woman whose passions and independence were incompatible with the age in which she lived. Taking into account a traumatic childhood, Douglass explores Lamb's so-called 'erotomania' and tendency towards drug abuse and madness - problems she and Byron had in common. In this portrait, she emerges as a person who sacrificed much for the welfare of a sick child, and became an artist in her own right. Douglass illuminates her novels and poetry, her literary friendships, and the lifelong support of her husband and her publisher, John Murray.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Author: P. Douglass
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403973342
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Lady Caroline Lamb , among Lord Byron's many lovers, stands out - vilified, portrayed as a self-destructive nymphomaniac - her true story has never been told. Now, Paul Douglass provides the first unbiased treatment of a woman whose passions and independence were incompatible with the age in which she lived. Taking into account a traumatic childhood, Douglass explores Lamb's so-called 'erotomania' and tendency towards drug abuse and madness - problems she and Byron had in common. In this portrait, she emerges as a person who sacrificed much for the welfare of a sick child, and became an artist in her own right. Douglass illuminates her novels and poetry, her literary friendships, and the lifelong support of her husband and her publisher, John Murray.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403973342
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Lady Caroline Lamb , among Lord Byron's many lovers, stands out - vilified, portrayed as a self-destructive nymphomaniac - her true story has never been told. Now, Paul Douglass provides the first unbiased treatment of a woman whose passions and independence were incompatible with the age in which she lived. Taking into account a traumatic childhood, Douglass explores Lamb's so-called 'erotomania' and tendency towards drug abuse and madness - problems she and Byron had in common. In this portrait, she emerges as a person who sacrificed much for the welfare of a sick child, and became an artist in her own right. Douglass illuminates her novels and poetry, her literary friendships, and the lifelong support of her husband and her publisher, John Murray.
Glenarvon
Author: Lady Caroline Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Caro: the Fatal Passion
Author: Henry Blyth
Publisher: Coward McCann
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Coward McCann
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Lady M
Author: Colin Brown
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445666510
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Lover of George, the Prince of Wales and mother of Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister, Viscountess Melbourne was the most important hostess of the Regency period. It was entirely in character that on her deathbed Elizabeth urged her daughter Emily to be faithful, not to her husband - but to her lover!
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445666510
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Lover of George, the Prince of Wales and mother of Queen Victoria's favourite prime minister, Viscountess Melbourne was the most important hostess of the Regency period. It was entirely in character that on her deathbed Elizabeth urged her daughter Emily to be faithful, not to her husband - but to her lover!
Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity
Author: Clara Tuite
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107082595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107082595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.
Glenarvon
Author: Caroline Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Works of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Byron's Women
Author: Alexander Larman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784082015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron – mad, bad and very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary bestsellers, he was a satirist of genius, he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero), he was the prototype of the modern celebrity – and he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In BYRON'S WOMEN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving and often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous 'anti-biography' of one of England's greatest poets, whose life he views – to deeply unflattering effect – through the prism of the nine damaged woman's lives.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784082015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron – mad, bad and very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary bestsellers, he was a satirist of genius, he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero), he was the prototype of the modern celebrity – and he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In BYRON'S WOMEN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving and often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous 'anti-biography' of one of England's greatest poets, whose life he views – to deeply unflattering effect – through the prism of the nine damaged woman's lives.
The Weaker Vessel
Author: Antonia Fraser
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804153418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous century between the death of Elizabeth and Queen Anne’s assumption of the throne. More than a collection of female biographies, The Weaker Vessel offers fresh insight into its subjects’ attitudes and lives, with appearances by heiresses and dairy maids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress. "An almost encyclopedic chronicle of women in 17th century England...wives, warriors, heiresses, preachers... alive with anecdote after anecdote." – The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804153418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous century between the death of Elizabeth and Queen Anne’s assumption of the throne. More than a collection of female biographies, The Weaker Vessel offers fresh insight into its subjects’ attitudes and lives, with appearances by heiresses and dairy maids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress. "An almost encyclopedic chronicle of women in 17th century England...wives, warriors, heiresses, preachers... alive with anecdote after anecdote." – The New York Times Book Review
The Monstrous Regiment of Women
Author: S. Jansen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230602118
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230602118
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.