The Life And Times Of Mary Dowager Duchess Of Sutherland

Author : Catherine Layton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527512924

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The Life and Times of Mary, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland by Catherine Layton Pdf

This definitive biography depicts one Victorian woman’s struggle to stay afloat in a rising tide of prurient scandalmongering and snobbery. Could it be that this woman’s character and circumstances informed Oscar Wilde’s social comedies? She was the daughter of a leading Conservative Oxford don, vilified as an arrogant fortune-hunter. Her liaison dangereuse with a Duke resulted in ostracism by Queen Victoria’s cronies, as well as protracted, widely publicised legal disputes with his family. One battle put her in Holloway Gaol for six weeks. Her supporters, over time, included Disraeli, the Khedival family of Egypt, the de Lesseps, and Sir Albert Kaye Rollit (a promoter of women’s suffrage, later her third husband). Her life and that of her family drew in British and European colonialism, and even Reilly, the “Ace of Spies”. Various previously untapped letters, diaries and journals allow the reader to navigate through the sensationalist fog of the primarily Liberal press of her time. The book will appeal to anyone interested in Victorian and journalism history, and gender and celebrity studies.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000782639

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The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture exposes, explores, and examines what Victorians once considered flagrant breaches of decorum. Infringements that were fantasized through artforms or were actually committed exceeded entertaining parlor gossip; once in print they were condemned as socially contaminative but were also consumed as delightfully sensational. Written by scholars in diverse disciplines, this volume: Demonstrates that spreading scandals seemed to have been one of the most entertaining sources of activities but were also normative efforts made by the Victorians to ensure conformity of decorum. Provides a broad spectrum of infractions that were considered scandalous to the Victorians. Identifies Victorian transgressions that made the news and that may still shock modern readers. Covers a gamut of moral infractions and transgressions either practiced, rumored, or fantasized in art forms. This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated in the nineteenth century while others were not, and what the controversies reveal about the human condition that persists beyond Victoria’s reign of propriety.

Author : Nurzan Mohd. Wahie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Diplomacy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210596404

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A Glimpse of Life in London and of Times Past by Nurzan Mohd. Wahie Pdf

"A clear insight of diplomatic life in London from the perspective of the wife of a [Malaysian] High Commissioner" ... [p. xi].

Author : K. Schutte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137327802

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Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000 by K. Schutte Pdf

Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.

Author : Guy Thorne
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547159834

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The Great Acceptance by Guy Thorne Pdf

This book is a biography of Frederick Nicholas Charrington. He was an English social reformer who renounced succession to a fortune of over £1 million in order to devote his life to temperance work. His father was a partner in the Charrington Brewery, one of London's biggest brewing companies. At the age of 19, Charrington had a conversion experience and became an Evangelical Christian. About a year later, while walking through Whitechapel, he saw a poorly dressed woman with her children begging her husband to leave a public house and give her money for food. The furious husband came out and knocked her into the gutter. Charrington went to help and was also knocked to the ground. Looking up, he saw his name on the sign above the pub.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89012924551

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The Register, and Magazine of Biography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thompson Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590831727

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The Register, and magazine of biography [ed. by T. Cooper]. by Thompson Cooper Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11001733

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The Register; and Magazine of Biography, A Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and other Genealogical and Personal Occurrences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Bartholomew Mosse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555011572

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The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament by Richard Bartholomew Mosse Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11636460

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The Law Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Equity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062379966

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Law Reports Under the Superintendence and Control of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. Supreme Court of Judicature : Cases Determined in the Chancery Division and in Bankruptcy and Lunacy and on Appeal Therefrom in the Court of Appeal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Riddell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nobility
ISBN : 0330367099

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The Duchess of Kent by Mary Riddell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112103153260

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The Law Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002800478O

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The Sketch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gilbert T. Bell
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nobility
ISBN : 1874744254

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A Prospect of Sutherland by Gilbert T. Bell Pdf

Built by Mary Caroline Blair, second wife of the third Duke of Sutherland, Carbisdale was the last castle to be built in Scotland. It was the site both of Montrose's last battle and of the headquarters of the Norwegian resistance during World War II.