The Great American Gentleman
Author : William Byrd
Publisher : New York : Putnam
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Virginia Social life and customs To 1775
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Author : William Byrd
Publisher : New York : Putnam
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Virginia Social life and customs To 1775
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Author : William Byrd
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 1963
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : William Byrd
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Virginia
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Author : William Byrd
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Page : 268 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Virginia
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The biography of William Byrd, hailed as the American Pepys reveals the life of a great gentleman in early America and a rich slice of what the country was really like in the early 1700's.
Author : Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807839116
William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.
Author : William Byrd
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Gentry
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A transcription from the original shorthand of the first part of Byrd's diary now in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Parts covering the period from December 13, 1717, to May 19, 1721, and from August 10, 1739, to August 31, 1741, are located in the Virginia Historical Society and the University of North Carolina Library respectively. cf. Introd.
Author : Wright
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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This eloquent and provocative essay describes the emergence of a Virginia gentleman. Sent to England for an education, William Byrd II soon learned to emulate the ideals of English gentility. In 1704 the thirty-year-old Byrd inherited his father's estates in Virginia, but he lived in England for much of the next twenty-five years pursuing his political ambitions. Thwarted in his efforts to obtain either the position to which he aspired or a wealthy bride, Byrd finally faced personal and financial ruin. Only then did he come to be both literally and figuratively at home in Virginia. The story is told through Kenneth Lockridge's compelling reading of a seemingly intractable source: Byrd's secret diaries. Drawing upon psychohistory, social psychology, cultural anthropology, and literary criticism, Lockridge relates the narrative of a single life, of a person struggling for realization within the context of a Virginia aristocracy itself striving for a mature conception of its role. He captures the essence of what it was to become a Virginia gentleman, and the terrible price leading Virginians paid for the eventual success of their class. In the process, Lockridge demonstrates how a close reading of literary texts can reveal large historical themes. He explores the politics of the eighteenth-century colonial and imperial world and reveals the exact moment at which a matured colonial gentry seized the initiative from its British masters -- fifty years before the Revolution.
Author : William Byrd
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Page : 590 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Mines and mineral resources
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