Lady Hester Stanhope
Lady Hester Stanhope

Author: Joan Haslip

Publisher: History PressLtd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780750943376

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Tells the true story of Lady Hester Stanhope, who, at the turn of the 18th-century left her homeland and travelled through Cairo, Jaffa, Damascus, Palmyra. This biography explores the incredible life of a young woman.

Lady Hester Stanhope
Lady Hester Stanhope

Author: Joan Haslip

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781494082246

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This is a new release of the original 1934 edition.

Lady Hester
Lady Hester

Author: Lorna Gibb

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780571217540

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Told with all the verve of its subject's life, based on much new source material and extensive travel in Hester's footsteps, 'Lady Hester' traces this extraordinary life from Downing Street to an isolated monastery in the hills of Lebanon - a stunning evocation of a unique and pioneering figure.

Star of the Morning
Star of the Morning

Author: Kirsten Ellis

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0007170300

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Lady Hester Stanhope - a wilful society hostess turned bohemian adventurer - left England as a young woman and unashamedly enjoyed a string of lovers before establishing her own exotic fiefdom in the Lebanese mountains. This is her remarkable story.

The Late Lord
The Late Lord

Author: Jacqueline Reiter

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781473856950

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John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham is one of the most enigmatic and overlooked figures of early nineteenth century British history. The elder brother of Pitt the Younger, he has long been consigned to history as 'the late Lord Chatham', the lazy commander-in-chief of the 1809 Walcheren expedition, whose inactivity and incompetence turned what should have been an easy victory into a disaster. Chatham's poor reputation obscures a fascinating and complex man. During a twenty-year career at the heart of government, he served in several important cabinet posts such as First Lord of the Admiralty and Master-General of the Ordnance. Yet despite his closeness to the Prime Minister and friendship with the Royal Family, political rivalries and private tragedy hampered his ascendance. Paradoxically for a man of widely admired diplomatic skills, his downfall owed as much to his personal insecurities and penchant for making enemies as it did to military failure. Using a variety of manuscript sources to tease Chatham from the records, this biography peels away the myths and places him for the first time in proper familial, political, and military context. It breathes life into a much-maligned member of one of Britain's greatest political dynasties, revealing a deeply flawed man trapped in the shadow of his illustrious relatives.

Women, Space and Utopia 1600–1800
Women, Space and Utopia 1600–1800

Author: Nicole Pohl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1351871420

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The first full length study of women's utopian spatial imagination in the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries, this book explores the sophisticated correlation between identity and social space. The investigation is mainly driven by conceptual questions and thus seeks to link theoretical debates about space, gender and utopianism to historiographic debates about the (gendered) social production of space. As Pohl's primary aim is to demonstrate how women writers explore the complex (gender) politics of space, specific attention is given to spaces that feature widely in contemporary utopian imagination: Arcadia, the palace, the convent, the harem and the country house. The early modern writers Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish seek to recreate Paradise in their versions of Eden and Jerusalem; the one yearns for Arcadia, the other for Solomon's Temple. Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell redefine the convent as an emancipatory space, dismissing its symbolic meaning as a confining and surveilled architecture. The utopia of the country house in the work of Delarivier Manley, Sarah Scott and Mary Hamilton will reveal how women writers resignify the traditional metonym of the country estate. The study will finish with an investigation of Oriental tales and travel writing by Ellis Cornelia Knight, Lady Mary Montagu, Elizabeth Craven and Lady Hester Stanhope who unveil the seraglio as a location for a Western, specifically masculine discourse on Orientalism, despotism and female sexuality and offers their own utopian judgment.