Pioneering Women of the American Wild West, Hickman, Katie

Автор: Hickman Katie
Название: She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen
ISBN: 0349008272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349008271
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 1972.00 р.
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Описание: An extraordinary and illuminating book that tells the incredible stories of the first British women to set foot in India - 250 years before the Raj.

Автор: Katie Hickman
Название: Courtesans
ISBN: 0007113927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007113927
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 1583.00 р.
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Описание: 'Irresistible...history at its most human. Elegant and addictively readable.' William Dalrymple During the course of the 18th- and 19th-century a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives - and those of other people - and made the world do their will.

Men ruined themselves in desperate attempts to gain and retain a courtesan's favours, but she was always courted for far more than sex. In an age in which women were generally not well educated she was often unusually literate and literary, courted for her conversation as well as her physical company. Courtesans were extremely accomplished, and exerted a powerful influence as leaders of fashion and society.

They were not received at Court, but inhabited their own parallel world - the demi-monde - complete with its own hierarchies, etiquette and protocol. They were queens of fashion, linguists, musicians, accomplished at political intrigue and, of course, possessors of great erotic gifts. Even to be seen in public with one of the great courtesans was a much-envied achievement.

In 'Courtesans' Katie Hickman, author of the bestselling 'Daughters of Britannia', focuses on the exceptional stories of five outstanding women. Sophia Baddeley, Elizabeth Armistead, Harriette Wilson, Cora Pearl and Catherine Walters may have had very different personalities and talents, but their lives exemplify the dazzling existence of the courtesan.

Автор: Hickman, Katie
Название: Daughters of Britannia
ISBN: 0060934239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060934231
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Цена: 1562.00 р.
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Описание: A London Times bestseller for over six months—DAUGHTERS OF BRITANNIA is a “fascinating”(Vogue) and “absorbing”(Wall Street Journal) social history that illuminates what life was like for diplomatic wives

Автор: Hickman, Katie
Название: Pioneering Women of the American Wild West
ISBN: 0349008280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349008288
Издательство: Little Brown
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Цена: 1972.00 р.
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Описание: Set in the glamorous, cutthroat world of influencers, Dead Lucky is the heart-racing new thriller from Andreina Cordani. When Xav Bailey - king of the streaming platform PlayMii - is murdered on camera, the whole world is in shock. But it`s down to fellow online star Maxine to uncover the secrets behind his death, before the killer strikes again