The Idler in Italy by the Countess of Blessington
Author : Marguerite Blessington (Gardiner, countess of)
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 1839
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Author : Marguerite Blessington (Gardiner, countess of)
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 1839
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Author : Marguerite Blessington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108045294
This three-volume work (first published in 1839-40) describes the author's life travelling in Italy, France and Switzerland.
Author : Richard Robert Madden
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Page : 510 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Marguerite countess of Gardiner Blessington (countess of Gardiner)
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 1839
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Susan Matoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 161149592X
This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonnière 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 Blessington’s 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 Blessington’s husband, forcing her to support herself and several dependents with her writing. Throughout this biography, Lady Blessington’s 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 Heath’s 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 stepdaughter’s estranged husband, Count D’Orsay. Lady Blessington’s 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.
Author : Aneta Lipska
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2017-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1783086793
This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington’s four travel books: ‘A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820’ (1822), ‘Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris in 1821’ (1822), ‘The Idler in Italy’ (1839) and ‘The Idler in France’ (1841). It argues that travelling and travel writing provided Blessington with endless opportunities to reshape her public personae, demonstrating that her predilection for self-fashioning was related to the various tendencies in tourism and literature as well as the changing aesthetic and social trends in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author : Marguerite Countess of Blessington
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 1842
Category : France
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Author : Marguerite Countess of Blessington
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Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 1841
Category : France
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2024-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368897004
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.