Britannias's Daughters
Author : Joanna Trollope
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Joanna Trollope
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Joanna Trollope
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Kathryn A Castle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526162962
Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2002-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060934231
In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Diana Cooper are among the well-known wives of diplomats who represented Britain in the far-flung corners of the globe. Yet, despite serving such crucial roles, the vast majority of these women are entirely unknown to history. Drawing on letters, private journals, and memoirs, as well as contemporary oral history, Katie Hickman explores not only the public pomp and glamour of diplomatic life but also the most intimate, private face of this most fascinating and mysterious world. Touching on the lives of nearly 100 diplomatic wives (as well as sisters and daughters), Daughters of Britannia is a brilliant and compelling account of more than three centuries of British diplomacy as seen through the eyes of some of its most intrepid but least heralded participants.
Author : Kathleen Wilson
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Richard Challoner
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Page : 748 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 1745
Category : Catholics
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Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Heraldry
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Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0393608565
A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and travelogue to rewrite the story of this “island nation.” From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by the collective term “Britanniae” (the Britains). This expansive journey demonstrates how the smaller islands have wielded disproportionate influence on the mainland, becoming the fertile ground of political, cultural, and technological innovations that shaped history throughout the archipelago. In an act of feminist inquiry, personal adventure, and literary quest, Alice Albinia embarks on a series of journeys that traverse Britain and reach beyond its contemporary borders—from Europe to the Caribbean, Ireland to Scandinavia. She walks the coastlines of Lindisfarne, sails through the Hebrides archipelago, and bikes into Westminster at dawn. As she takes us across extravagantly varied island topographies and surveys centuries of history, Albinia ranges between languages and genres, and through disparate island cultures. She talks to stubbornly independent islanders and searches for archaeological and linguistic traces of island identities, discovering distinct traditions and resistance to mainland control. Trespassing into the past to understand the present, The Britannias uncovers an enduring and subversive mythology of islands ruled by women. Albinia finds female independence woven through Roman colonial reports and Welsh medieval poetry, Restoration utopias and island folk songs. These neglected epics offer fierce feminist countercurrents to mainstream narratives of British identity and shed new light on women’s status in the body politic today. Vivid, perceptive, and disruptive, The Britannias boldly upturns established truths about Britain while revealing its suppressed and forgotten beauty.
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Page : 772 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1825
Category : Asia
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 1886
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