Author: Thomas Day
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The History of Sandford and Merton
Author: Thomas Day
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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How to Create the Perfect Wife
Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465065732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A captivating tale of one man's mission to groom his ideal mate. Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal, yet tough and hardy, and completely subervient to his whims. But after being rejected by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect partner he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian society. Rather than conceding defeat and giving up on his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the extraordinary true story at the heart of How to Create the Perfect Wife. A few days after he turned twenty-one and inherited a large fortune, Day adopted two young orphans from the Founding Hospital and, guided by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the principles of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. Day's peculiar experiment inevitably backfired -- though not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education, and femininity to shocking extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism -- and deep contradictions -- at the heart of the enlightenment.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465065732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A captivating tale of one man's mission to groom his ideal mate. Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal, yet tough and hardy, and completely subervient to his whims. But after being rejected by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect partner he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian society. Rather than conceding defeat and giving up on his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the extraordinary true story at the heart of How to Create the Perfect Wife. A few days after he turned twenty-one and inherited a large fortune, Day adopted two young orphans from the Founding Hospital and, guided by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the principles of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. Day's peculiar experiment inevitably backfired -- though not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education, and femininity to shocking extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism -- and deep contradictions -- at the heart of the enlightenment.
Sandford and Merton
Author: Lucy Aikin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The History of Sandford and Merton
Author: Thomas Day
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Novel Gazing
Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822320401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
DIVThis is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. Eve Sedgwick has brought together contributors to navigate this new terrritory through discussions of a wide range of British, French, and American novels--including canonical/div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822320401
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
DIVThis is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. Eve Sedgwick has brought together contributors to navigate this new terrritory through discussions of a wide range of British, French, and American novels--including canonical/div
The New History of Sandford and Merton
Author: Francis Cowley Burnand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The History of Sandford and Merton
Author: Thomas Day
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368770942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368770942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
The New History of Sandford and Merton
Author: F. C. Burnand
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368168940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368168940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
DYING NEGRO
Author: THOMAS. DAY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033813065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033813065
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The History of Sandford and Merton ... The seventh edition considerably improved. By Thomas Day
Author: Harry SANDFORD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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