Marguerite, Countess of Blessington: The Turbulent Life of a Salonniere and Author 9781611495911

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Автор: Matoff Susan
Название: Marguerite, Countess of Blessington: The Turbulent Life of a Salonniere and Author
ISBN: 9781611495911
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

Социальная история и история культуры

ISBN-10: 1611495911
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 376
Вес: 0.74 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2015
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 11 black & white illustrations
Размер: 160 x 236 x 38
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: The turbulent life of a salonniere and author
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonni re 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 Blessingtons 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 Blessingtons husband, forcing her to support herself and several dependents with her writing. Throughout this biography, Lady Blessingtons 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 Heaths 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 stepdaughters estranged husband, Count DOrsay. Lady Blessingtons 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.

Marguerite, Countess of Blessington: The Turbulent Life of a Salonniere and Author, Matoff Susan