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Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book The Rival Wives written by and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book The Rival Wives Answer'd: Or, Skirra to Clarissa. [In Verse.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : CLARISSA.
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Total Pages : 18 pages
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Download or read book The Rival Wives. Or, the Greeting of Clarissa to Skirra in the Elysian Shades. A satire in verse on Catharine Shorter and Maria Skerret, wives of Sir Robert Walpole written by CLARISSA. and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 17 pages
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Download or read book The Rival Wives Answer'd: Or, Skirra to Clarissa written by and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicola Tallis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777142
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Elizabeth's Rival written by Nicola Tallis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kinswoman to Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys had begun the Queen’s glittering reign basking in favor and success. It was an honor that she would enjoy for two decades. However, on the morning of September 21st, 1578, Lettice made a fateful decision. When the Queen learned of it, the consequences were swift. Lettice had dared to marry without the Queen’s consent. But worse, her new husband was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen’s favorite and one-time suitor.Though she would not marry him herself, Elizabeth was fiercely jealous of any woman who showed an interest in Leicester. Knowing that she would likely earn the Queen’s enmity, Lettice married Leicester in secret, leading to her permanent banishment from court. Elizabeth never forgave the new Countess for what she perceived to be a devastating betrayal, and Lettice permanently forfeited her favor. She had become not just Queen Elizabeth’s adversary. She was her rival. But the Countess’ story does not end there. Surviving the death of two husbands and navigating the courts of three very different monarchs: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Charles I, Lettice’s story offers an extraordinary and intimate perspective on the world she lived in.
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Total Pages : 18 pages
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Download or read book The Rival Wives. Or, the Greeting of Clarissa to Skirra in the Elysian Shades written by and published by . This book was released on 1738 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408145022
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rivals written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restoration comedies) to counteract the sentimental mode. The Rivals (1775) was a qualified success: the suave young officer who is 'forced' by his father to marry the very girl to whom he is secretly engaged must always please; but first audiences were as uncertain as later critics about how to evaluate his neurotic friend Faulkland, who invents a series of caveats for his marriage to the earnest Julia. A country squire who becomes alarmingly foppish in town, an impetuous Irishman and the linguistically challenged Mrs Malaprop complete the cast. This edition includes the original preface and several prologues; in an appendix it lists all the fashionable books and songs to which the characters allude.
Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190465093
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Romance's Rival written by Talia Schaffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance's Rival argues that the central plot of the most important genre of the nineteenth century, the marriage plot novel, means something quite different from what we thought. In Victorian novels, women may marry for erotic desire--but they might, instead, insist on "familiar marriage," marrying trustworthy companions who can offer them socially rich lives and futures of meaningful work. Romance's Rival shows how familiar marriage expresses ideas of female subjectivity dating back through the seventeenth century, while romantic marriage felt like a new, risky idea. Undertaking a major rereading of the rise-of-the-novel tradition, from Richardson through the twentieth century, Talia Schaffer rethinks what the novel meant if one tracks familiar-marriage virtues. This alternative perspective offers new readings of major texts (Austen, the Bront s, Eliot, Trollope) but it also foregrounds women's popular fiction (Yonge, Oliphant, Craik, Broughton). Offering a feminist perspective that reads the marriage plot from the woman's point of view, Schaffer inquires why a female character might legitimately wish to marry for something other than passion. For the past half-century, scholars have valorized desire, individuality, and autonomy in the way we read novels; Romance's Rival asks us to look at the other side, to validate the yearning for work, family, company, or social power as legitimate reasons for women's marital choices in Victorian fiction. Comprehensive in its knowledge of several generations of scholarship on the novel, Romance's Rival convinces us to re-examine assumptions about the nature and function of marriage and the role of the novel in helping us not simply imagine marriage but also process changing ideas about what it might look like and how it might serve people.
Author : Anne Austin
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Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book Rival wives written by Anne Austin and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annelise Freisenbruch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416583572
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Caesars' Wives written by Annelise Freisenbruch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the high dramas of the Roman court. Yet little has been known about who they really were and their true roles in the history-making schemes of imperial Rome’s ruling Caesars—indeed, how they figured in the rise, decline, and fall of the empire. Now, in Caesars’ Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire, Annelise Freisenbruch pulls back the veil on these fascinating women in Rome’s power circles, giving them the chance to speak for themselves for the first time. With impeccable scholarship and arresting storytelling, Freisenbruch brings their personalities vividly to life, from notorious Livia and scandalous Julia to Christian Helena. Starting at the year 30 BC, when Cleopatra, Octavia, and Livia stand at the cusp of Rome’s change from a republic to an autocracy, Freisenbruch relates the story of Octavian and Marc Antony’s clash over the fate of the empire—an archetypal story that has inspired a thousand retellings—in a whole new light, uncovering the crucial political roles these first "first ladies" played. From there, she takes us into the lives of the women who rose to power over the next five centuries—often amid violence, speculation, and schemes—ending in the fifth century ad, with Galla Placidia, who was captured by Goth invaders (and married to one of their kings). The politics of Rome are revealed through the stories of Julia, a wisecracking daughter who disgraced her father by getting drunk in the Roman forum and having sex with strangers on the speaker’s platform; Poppea, a vain and beautiful mistress who persuaded the emperor to kill his mother so that they could marry; Domitia, a wife who had a flagrant affair with an actor before conspiring in her husband’s assassination; and Fausta, a stepmother who tried to seduce her own stepson and then engineered his execution—afterward she was boiled to death as punishment. Freisenbruch also tells a fascinating story of how the faces of these influential women have been refashioned over the millennia to tell often politically motivated stories about their reigns, in the process becoming models of femininity and female power. Illuminating the anxieties that persist even today about women in or near power and revealing the female archetypes that are a continuing legacy of the Roman Empire, Freisenbruch shows the surprising parallels of these iconic women and their public and private lives with those of our own first ladies who become part of the political agenda, as models of comportment or as targets for their husbands’ opponents. Sure to transform our understanding of these first ladies, the influential women who witnessed one of the most gripping, significant eras of human history, Caesars’ Wives is a significant new chronicle of an era that set the foundational story of Western Civilization and hung the mirror into which every era looks to find its own reflection.
