The Royal Society of Literature and the Patronage of George IV
Author : David Gardner Williams
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Author : David Gardner Williams
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Author : Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain)
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 1919
Category : English literature
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Author : American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Education
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Author : Isabel Quigly
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1839
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Author : Samuel Drew
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 1821
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Author : Theodore Dwight
Publisher :
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 600 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Education
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Page : 862 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1847
Category : American literature
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Author : Stella Tillyard
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0141978864
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.