Автор: Seymour, Miranda Название: Ottoline morrell ISBN: 057124310X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571243105 Издательство: Faber Рейтинг: Цена: 4950.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Augustus John, T S Eliot, D H Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and W B Yeats enjoyed Ottoline Morrell hospitality and she was Bertrand Russell`s mistress for many years. This biography reveals Morrell, London`s leading literary hostess during the first three decades of the 20th century.
Автор: Seymour Miranda Название: Mary Shelley ISBN: 1471174158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471174155 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The definitive and richly woven biography of Mary Shelley, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein
A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that extraordinary father whom Ada never knew: Lord Byron.
In 1815, the clever and courted Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, Ada Lovelace. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron's little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits. As a child invalid, Ada dreamed of building a steam-driven flying horse. As an exuberant and boldly unconventional young woman, she amplified her explanations of Charles Babbage's unbuilt calculating engine to predict the dawn of the modern computer age.During her life, Lady Byron was praised as a paragon of virtue; within ten years of her death, she was vilified as a disgrace to her sex. Well over a hundred years later, Annabella Milbanke is still perceived as a prudish wife and cruelly controlling mother. But her hidden devotion to Byron and her tender ambitions for his mercurial, brilliant daughter reveal a deeply complex but unexpectedly sympathetic personality.Drawing on fascinating new material, Seymour reveals the ways in which Byron, long after his death, continued to shape the lives and reputations both of his wife and his daughter.
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