The Travel Writings Of Marguerite Blessington

Author : Aneta Lipska
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086793
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington written by Aneta Lipska and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington’s four travel books: ‘A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820’ (1822), ‘Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris in 1821’ (1822), ‘The Idler in Italy’ (1839) and ‘The Idler in France’ (1841). It argues that travelling and travel writing provided Blessington with endless opportunities to reshape her public personae, demonstrating that her predilection for self-fashioning was related to the various tendencies in tourism and literature as well as the changing aesthetic and social trends in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Susan Matoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161149592X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marguerite, Countess of Blessington written by Susan Matoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Susanne Schmid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315534274
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Error written by Susanne Schmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early and mid-nineteenth century, Marguerite Blessington, who had been born in Ireland but spent most of her life in London, became a famous salonnière; she was generally regarded as an important contemporary author, but as no literary executor took care of her oeuvre posthumously, she eventually moved into the background. Her novels, partly informed by the silver-fork genre, are typical examples of Romantic Victorianism, influenced by the Romantic cult of the solitary male self, by the fascination with Italy, and by the 1840s vogue of crime fiction, while simultaneously giving space to ambivalent reflections about Blessington’s own Irish background. This volume, as part of ‘Chawton House Library: Women’s Novels’ series, presents her 1847 novel Marmaduke Herbert; or, the Fatal Error, a highly popular piece of fiction in its day, being reprinted in German, French and American editions within a year of its publication.

Author : Michael Cronin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108916740
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eco-Travel written by Michael Cronin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human encounters with the natural world are inseparable from the history of travel. Nature, as fearsome obstacle, a wonder to behold or a source of therapeutic refuge, is bound up with the story of human mobility. Stories of this mobility give readers a sense of the diversity of the natural world, how they might interpret and respond to it and how human preoccupations are a help or a hindrance in maintaining bio-cultural diversity. Travel writing has constantly shaped how humans view the environment from foreign adventures to flight-shaming. If much of modern travel writing has been based on ready access to environmentally damaging forms of transport how do travel writers deal with a practice that is destroying the world they claim to cherish? This Element explores human travel encounters with the environment over the centuries and asks, what is the future for travel writing in the age of the Anthropocene?

Author : Marguerite Blessington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108045294
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idler in Italy written by Marguerite Blessington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume work (first published in 1839-40) describes the author's life travelling in Italy, France and Switzerland.

Author : Rebecca Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000381625
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Italy written by Rebecca Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female tourists were conspicuous in their commitment to the Italian campaign for national independence, or Risorgimento (1815–61). Revisiting Italy brings several previously unexamined travel accounts by women to light during a decisive period in this political campaign. Revealing the wider currency of the Risorgimento in British literature, Butler situates once-popular but now-marginalized writers: Clotilda Stisted, Janet Robertson, Mary Pasqualino, Selina Bunbury, Margaret Dunbar and Frances Minto Elliot alongside more prominent figures: the Shelley-Byron circle, the Brownings, Florence Nightingale and the Kemble sisters. Going beyond the travel book, she analyses a variety of forms of travel writing including unpublished letters, privately printed accounts and periodical serials. Revisiting Italy focuses on the convergence of political advocacy, gender ideologies, national identity and literary authority in women’s travel writing. Whether promoting nationalism through a maternal lens, politicizing the pilgrimage motif or reviving gothic representations of a revolutionary Italy, it identifies shared touristic discourses as temporally contingent, shaped by commercial pressures and the volatile political climate at home and abroad.

Author : Marguerite Zorach
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874130355
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clever Fresno Girl written by Marguerite Zorach and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features 30 art-related travel articles by the American modern artist, Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1887-1968). The accompanying essay examines her life in Paris, the people she met, and the art she was exposed to.

Author : Marguerite Blessington
Publisher : Double 9 Books
ISBN 13 : 9789362207050
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idler In France written by Marguerite Blessington and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Idler in France" by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, is a captivating travelogue and memoir that immerses readers in the cultural riches of 19th-century France. Through Gardiner's experiential narrative, readers embark on a journey across Europe, delving into the vibrant tapestry of French society and artistic circles. As an aristocrat and literary figure, Gardiner offers unique insights into the cultural landscape of her time, weaving together observations of literary salons, social commentary, and encounters with the French aristocracy. With a blend of romanticism and realism, Gardiner's narrative captures the essence of European travel during the 19th century, providing readers with a vivid portrait of France and its people. From the bustling streets of Paris to the serene countryside, Gardiner's exploration of French culture is both enlightening and enchanting. "The Idler in France" stands as a testament to Gardiner's keen eye for detail and her ability to convey the essence of a time and place through her writing. It is a captivating memoir that offers readers a glimpse into the beauty and complexity of 19th-century France through the lens of one woman's experiential narrative.

Author : Nandini Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110861681X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Travel Writing written by Nandini Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.

Author : Countess of Marguerite Blessington
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idler in France written by Countess of Marguerite Blessington and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Idler in France" by Countess of Marguerite Blessington. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.