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Bird Of Paradise
- The Colourful Career of the First Mrs Robinson
Engelsk
Bogcover for Bird Of Paradise af Sarah Gristwood, 9780857500328
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
560
ISBN-13:
9780857500328
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0857500325
Udg. Dato:
28 feb 2011
Størrelse i cm:
12,9 x 20,1 x 5,4
Oplagsdato:
28 feb 2011
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Bird Of Paradise

- The Colourful Career of the First Mrs Robinson
Engelsk
Paperback 2011
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Few women''s lives have described such an arc as that of Mary Robinson. She began her career as an actress, became a royal mistress and possible blackmailer, and ended it just two decades later as a Romantic poet and early feminist thinker of note. She was painted by Gainsborough and Reynolds, and satirized by political cartoonists.

Born in Bristol in 1758, she married at 15. But Mary had barely made her curtsey to society before discovering that Robinson was little better than a conman. She went with him to debtors'' prison, where she wrote her first book of verse. Encouraged by Sheridan and Garrick, who admired her beauty, she went on the stage, where she was seen by the 17-year-old Prince of Wales, and they embarked on a widely satirized liaison. Mary had made her mark in fashionable Georgian society and this, over the next two momentous decades, was where she contrived to stay.

This vivid and accessible biography explores Georgian England during a period of extreme political, social and cultural upheaval through the life of this remarkable woman.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
560
ISBN-13:
9780857500328
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0857500325
Udg. Dato:
28 feb 2011
Størrelse i cm:
12,9 x 20,1 x 5,4
Oplagsdato:
28 feb 2011
Forfatter(e):
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