Stately Passions

Author : Jamie Douglas-Home
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1843179555
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stately Passions written by Jamie Douglas-Home and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Britain's great stately homes and the scandals, predominately sexual, which the owners and their families have been involved in from the sixteenth century to the present day. It details some of the most notorious scandals to have engulfed the British royal family and aristocracy and captures not only the events and their era, but also the essence of some of the world's greatest and most beautiful private dwellings. From the Hampton Court of Henry VIII to the modern scandals that saw the present Lord Brocket jailed, "Stately Passions" gives centre stage to the British stately homes that have played witness to centuries of aristocratic indiscretion. Whether examining the 'Profumo Affair', the call-girl scandal at Cliveden, the home of Viscount Astor, that eventually brought down a government, or the affairs of the lesbian Vita Sackville-West and her bisexual husband, Harold Nicolson, at Sissinghurst Castle; or considering the goings-on at Fort Belvedere, the Surrey bolthole where the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, conducted his affair with the American divorcee Wallis Simpson that eventually led to his abdication, "Stately Passions" provides a fascinating insight into the lives, loves - and morals, dubious though they may be - of some notorious denizens of the aristocratic world.

Author : Andy K. Hughes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844687503
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pocket Guide to Scandals in the Aristocracy written by Andy K. Hughes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were going to call this a Pocket Guide to Noble Scandals but theres nothing noble about these aristocrats. Tales of greed, list, murder and mayhem litter the pages of Andy Hughes must-read book. Whether its gambling away their familys fortune, writing racy poems and shocking decent people, the aristocracy have been at the center of scandals for centuries, abusing their position of power to take advantage of everyone else or kill those who get in their way. This Pocket Guide to Scandals in the Aristocracy is a race through history, divided into eras to introduce the best and worst scurrilous tales from Francis Lovell being bricked up alive in his stately home to the ongoing mystery of Lord Lucan and delicious (but true) gossip which delighted readers when the aristocrats were thinly disguised in the novels of their day. Bring history alive with this fact-filled guide.Youll also love: The Pocket Guide to Royal Scandals and The Pocket Guide to Political Scandals, both by Andy Hughes

Author : David Masson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macmillan's Magazine written by David Masson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macmillan's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John D. Jump
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136172963
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Alfred Tennyson written by John D. Jump and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Author : Graham Davidson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718896467
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intelligible Ode written by Graham Davidson and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its first publication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for the magnificence of its verse and disparaged for its paucity of meaning - the 'immortality' of the subtitle unsubstantiated, and the 'recollections' insubstantial. Yet Wordsworth's idea of immortality has clear precedents in the seventeenth century, and recollections of childhood are Traherne's starting point for the recovery of a lost vision comparable to Wordsworth's. Via the power of the imagination, or reason, they believed they could experience a renewed vision that both termed variously Paradise, or infinity, or immortality. Graham Davidson traces the origins of Wordsworth's poetic impetus to his resistance to the Cartesian division between mind and nature, first adumbrated by the Cambridge Platonists. If reunited, Paradise was regained, but this personal trajectory was tempered by a deep sympathy for the woes of mortal life. Davidson explores the consequent dialogue through some of Wordsworth's best-known poems, at the heart of which is the Ode. In the last section, he demonstrates how Wordsworth's publishing history led the Victorians and modernists to misinterpret his work; if one considers Eliot's Four Quartets as odes, facing several of the same problems as did Wordsworth, there is some irony in Eliot's dismissal of the Immortality Ode as 'verbiage'.

Author : Margaret Fuller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Literature, and the Drama written by Margaret Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Wordsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engr. t.p., with vignette. Half-title: ... Wordsworth, ed. by Andrew J. George. "The bibliography of Wordsworth": pages [911]-915; "References, biographical, critical, and descriptive": pages [917]-918.

Author : William S. Walsh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Enchiridion of Criticism written by William S. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Poems by Grades written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by American and British poets arranged in sections for grades one through eight. Also includes sections of seasonal and patriotic poems.