(Good condition book with like DJ. Boards are clean with m...)
Good condition book with like DJ. Boards are clean with minor bumping to corners and spine ends. Content clean with age toning to pages and a solid binding. Good DJ with edge wear including small closed tears and chipping to spine ends. Previous owners dedication sticker to ffep.
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(It is, as Lord Melbourne hinted to Queen Victoria, 'a lit...)
It is, as Lord Melbourne hinted to Queen Victoria, 'a little curious that so many good-looking children should have been born of the union between George III and Queen Charlotte.' His florid youthful comeliness soon passed, leaving him with protuberant eyes and pendulous lips, and even the Queen's best friends could not describe her as anything but plain. Yet these two found themselves in course of time surrounded by a family of seven sons and six daughters all of whom were, at least in their earlier years, more than passably handsome. This study by the noted biographer Dorothy Margaret Stuart was the first full length account of the six princesses. Fanny Burney exclaimed, with characteristic fervor, 'Never in tale or fable were six sister princesses more lovely!' and a visitor from America wrote in 1788, 'The four eldest princesses are thought surprising beauties. They are certainly handsome' When Gainsborough was painting the series of family portraits he spoke with rapture of the royal children. The six Princesses were so spaced in order of time that they tended to fall into two equal groups: the elder Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Princess Royal, born in 1766; Augusta Sophia, born in 1768; Elizabeth, born in 1770: and the younger-Mary, born in 1776; Sophia, born in 1777; and Amelia, born in 1783. This biography provides a full account of all of the six princesses.
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(Elizabeth Foster, 'Bess' is one of the larger-than-life c...)
Elizabeth Foster, 'Bess' is one of the larger-than-life characters that occasionally flits across the pages of history. Born in 1757 as Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, the daughter of the eccentric Frederick Hervey, Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, she led a privileged life and married John Thomas Foster in 1777. Following their separation, Foster took her infant sons from her and the distressed Bess led a bitter life, made more tolerable by the kindness and affection shown to her by her best friend, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The friendship developed into a further intimate friendship with Georgiana's husband, the Duke of Devonshire, the subject of the 2008 film The Duchess starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. Soon Bess, Georgiana and the Duke were living in a ménage à trois resulting in two illegitimate children, which Bess bore in exile in France, terrified of discovery and social ostracism. Two years after Georgiana's death in 1806, Bess married 'Canis', the nickname given to the Duke by Bess and Georgiana, and the couple lived together in happiness at Devonshire House and Chatsworth. However, their happiness was short-lived, and Canis died after just 21 months of marriage. Bess spent much of the remainder of her life in Italy. Fluent in French and Italian, and living abroad for many years, Bess maintained a voluminous correspondence, and as a consequence an amazing picture has been built of this amazing woman, the friend of Marie Antoinette, the Prince Regent and many in the highest circles of society in England, France and Italy.
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(A Book of Cats: Legendary, Literary and Historical)
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She was a member of the English Association from 1930 onwards, edited its News-Letter and contributed essays and book reviews to its journal, English.