Author: David C. Sutton
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. Sutton
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
Author: Susan Matoff
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 161149592X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonnière and author. This study enriches our knowledge of the social, political, and literary history of the post-Romantic and early Victorian era. It examines Lady Blessington’s close friendships with politicians and writers, especially Edward Bulwer Lytton and Benjamin Disraeli. Statesmen, diplomats, writers, and artists were her constant visitors, as they found her friendship and conversation invaluable to their professional and social lives. The circumstances of a life lived in luxury and indulgence changed upon the death of Lady Blessington’s husband, forcing her to support herself and several dependents with her writing. Throughout this biography, Lady Blessington’s voice is evident and should reawaken scholarly and popular interest in her voluminous works. She wrote twenty novels in genres including silver-fork fiction, psychological drama, and verse narrative. She also produced four travel books, many short stories, and numerous poems and edited the popular literary gift annuals Heath’s Book of Beauty and The Keepsake. This book reveals the humanity of a woman whom contemporary gossip considered scandalous because of her alleged relationship with her stepdaughter’s estranged husband, Count D’Orsay. Lady Blessington’s struggle in the face of many challenges is an inspiring story of individual strength. It is a tale of a woman whose legacy of integrity, determination, and sheer hard work provides us with enlarged insights into an era and society often overlooked by history.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 161149592X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonnière and author. This study enriches our knowledge of the social, political, and literary history of the post-Romantic and early Victorian era. It examines Lady Blessington’s close friendships with politicians and writers, especially Edward Bulwer Lytton and Benjamin Disraeli. Statesmen, diplomats, writers, and artists were her constant visitors, as they found her friendship and conversation invaluable to their professional and social lives. The circumstances of a life lived in luxury and indulgence changed upon the death of Lady Blessington’s husband, forcing her to support herself and several dependents with her writing. Throughout this biography, Lady Blessington’s voice is evident and should reawaken scholarly and popular interest in her voluminous works. She wrote twenty novels in genres including silver-fork fiction, psychological drama, and verse narrative. She also produced four travel books, many short stories, and numerous poems and edited the popular literary gift annuals Heath’s Book of Beauty and The Keepsake. This book reveals the humanity of a woman whom contemporary gossip considered scandalous because of her alleged relationship with her stepdaughter’s estranged husband, Count D’Orsay. Lady Blessington’s struggle in the face of many challenges is an inspiring story of individual strength. It is a tale of a woman whose legacy of integrity, determination, and sheer hard work provides us with enlarged insights into an era and society often overlooked by history.
The Examiner
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Bulwer: a Panorama
Author: Michael Sadleir
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Critic
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Category : General
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Category : General
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Disraeli
Author: Andre Maurois
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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