Lady Ann's Excellent Adventure (A Regency Short Story)
Lady Ann's Excellent Adventure (A Regency Short Story)

Author: Candice Hern

Publisher: Candice Hern

Published: 2012-12-24

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0985160314

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George IV
George IV

Author: Christopher Hibbert

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 851

ISBN-13: 1250102790

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“One of the most satisfying biographies of an English king: it is ample, convincing and well written”—from the acclaimed author of The House of Medici (The Times Literary Supplement). Christopher Hibbert delivers a superbly detailed picture of the life and times of George IV including his exorbitant spending on his homes, his clothes, and his women; his patronage of the arts; his “illegal” marriage to Catholic Mrs. Fitzherbert, and lesser known facts such as his generous charity donations and his witty one-liners, including one he uttered when he met his bride-to-be (Caroline of Brunswick) for the first time: “Harris, I am not well, fetch me a brandy.” George IV was the son of George III (who went insane and inspired The Madness of King George) and was the founder of the prestigious King’s College in London. “A delight to read . . . an enormously enjoyable and skillful portrait.” —Philip Ziegler, The Spectator “Christopher Hibbert’s George IV is at once soundly based on research in the Royal Archives at Windsor and a rollicking good read. I found it invaluable when I was researching The Unruly Queen, my life of George IV’s wife, Queen Caroline, and I recommend it to anyone interested by George IV’s flamboyant and outrageous personality.” —Flora Fraser, author of Flora Macdonald: “Pretty Young Rebel”

George IV
George IV

Author: Jonathan Marsden

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781909741607

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Published to accompany a major exhibition at The Queen's Galleries in London and Edinburgh, this book provides new insights into George IV as a collector. Although George led a life bounded by convention, he was a genuine connoisseur who was able to form an unrivalled collection of paintings, porcelain and furniture. These he presented and displayed in a series of architecturally adventurous spaces. His acquisitions continue to form the backdrop to royal ceremony, a legacy that is one of the principal pillars of today's magnificent Royal Collection.

Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century
Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Mallory James

Publisher: Grub Street Publishers

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1526705222

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“A scholarly guide to etiquette as entertaining and amusing as a work of fiction” (Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine). Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have gotten a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done with a letter of introduction? And where would you have sat in a carriage? Covering all these nineteenth-century dilemmas and more, this book is your must-have guide to the etiquette of our well-heeled forebears. As it takes you through the intricacies of rank, the niceties of the street, the good conduct that was desired in the ballroom, and the awkward blunders that a lady or gentleman would have wanted to avoid, you will discover an abundance of etiquette advice from across the century, and a lively, occasionally tongue-in-cheek, and thoroughly detailed history of nineteenth-century manners and conduct. This well-researched book is enjoyable, compelling reading for anyone with an interest in this period. In exploring the expectations of behavior and etiquette, it brings the world of the nineteenth century to life.

George IV (Penguin Monarchs)
George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

Author: Stella Tillyard

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 0141978864

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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.

England Re-Oriented
England Re-Oriented

Author: Humberto Garcia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-11-19

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1108495648

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Between 1750 and 1857, westward-bound Central and South Asian travelers connected imperial Britain to Persian Indo-Eurasia by performing queer masculinities.

Prince of Pleasure
Prince of Pleasure

Author: Saul David

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780802137036

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In this title, a chronicle of the scandalous reign of England's George IV captures the sexual intrigue and financial improvidence that that helped define the Regency period and also notes this complex King's intelligence and advocacy of the arts.