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An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Guy's Cliff, Stoneleigh Abbey, the Beauchamp Chapel, Charlecote Hall, Stratford, Coombe Abbey, and other places of interest in the neighbourhood. Ninth edition. [By Henry Thomas Cooke. With plates.]
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Pages : 298
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Elizabeth Craven: Writer, Feminist and European
Author: Julia Gasper
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622734084
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Elizabeth Craven’s fascinating life was full of travel, love-affairs and scandals but this biography, the first to appear for a century, is the only one to focus on her as a writer and draw attention to the full range of her output, which raises her stature as an author considerably. Born into the upper class of Georgian England, she was pushed into marriage at sixteen to Lord Craven and became a celebrated society hostess and beauty, as well as mother to seven children. Though acutely conscious of her relative lack of education, as a woman, she ventured into writing poetry, stories and plays. Incompatibility and infidelities on both sides ended her marriage and she had to move to France where, living in seclusion, she wrote the little-known feminist work Letters to Her Son. In the years that followed, she travelled extensively all over Europe and turned her letters into a travelogue which is one of her best-known works. On her return she went to live in Germany as the companion and eventually second wife of the Margrave of Ansbach. At his court she organised and appeared in theatricals, and wrote several more plays of great interest, including The Modern Philosopher. In 1792 she and the Margrave settled in England, where they were never fully accepted by the more strait-laced pillars of society but mixed with all the musicians and actors and the more rakish of the Regency set. Craven continued to put on her own theatricals and write for the theatre. In her old age, she moved to Naples where she passed her time sailing, gardening and writing her Memoirs. Even in her final years, scandal dogged her, and Craven made her feminist principles and criticisms of the laws of marriage apparent through her involvement in the notorious divorce case of Queen Caroline.
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622734084
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Elizabeth Craven’s fascinating life was full of travel, love-affairs and scandals but this biography, the first to appear for a century, is the only one to focus on her as a writer and draw attention to the full range of her output, which raises her stature as an author considerably. Born into the upper class of Georgian England, she was pushed into marriage at sixteen to Lord Craven and became a celebrated society hostess and beauty, as well as mother to seven children. Though acutely conscious of her relative lack of education, as a woman, she ventured into writing poetry, stories and plays. Incompatibility and infidelities on both sides ended her marriage and she had to move to France where, living in seclusion, she wrote the little-known feminist work Letters to Her Son. In the years that followed, she travelled extensively all over Europe and turned her letters into a travelogue which is one of her best-known works. On her return she went to live in Germany as the companion and eventually second wife of the Margrave of Ansbach. At his court she organised and appeared in theatricals, and wrote several more plays of great interest, including The Modern Philosopher. In 1792 she and the Margrave settled in England, where they were never fully accepted by the more strait-laced pillars of society but mixed with all the musicians and actors and the more rakish of the Regency set. Craven continued to put on her own theatricals and write for the theatre. In her old age, she moved to Naples where she passed her time sailing, gardening and writing her Memoirs. Even in her final years, scandal dogged her, and Craven made her feminist principles and criticisms of the laws of marriage apparent through her involvement in the notorious divorce case of Queen Caroline.
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Pages : 530
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Pages : 530
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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Pages : 1164
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Pages : 712
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Pages : 712
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Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Extracted from the Catalogues of the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Library of Trinity College (Dublin), the National Library of Scotland, and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Newcastle: Phase 1: 1816-1870. v.15. Fort - Fyv and Indexes for volumes 11-15. v.20. Hor-Hunt, W. R. and Indexes for v. 16-20. v.21. Hunten-Jero. v.22. Jerp-Kief. v.23. Kieg-Lecom. v.24. Lecon-Lorc. v.25. Lord-Maccaul and Indexes for volumes 21-25
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Shakespeare's Stratford
Author: Edgar I. Fripp
Publisher: AMS Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Description of Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's time.
Publisher: AMS Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Description of Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's time.
An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Guy's Cliff, Stoneleigh Abbey, the Beauchamp Chapel ... and Another Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood
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Big Game Shooting
Author: Archibald Rogers
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Category : Game and game-birds
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Category : Game and game-birds
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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