[PDF] The Georgian Era Vol 1 Of 4 eBook

Author : Clarke Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781332510191

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Excerpt from The Georgian Era, Vol. 1 of 4: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, Who Have Flourished in Great Britain; From the Accession of George the First to the Demise of George the Fourth Biography is generally admitted to be one of the most amusing and instructive subjects in the whole range of literature. It illustrates history; reveals the trifling causes of great events; renders us familiar with the character and habits of eminent individuals; displays the consequences of human conduct, under its various modifications; and combines the fascinations of romance with the sober dignity and sterling value of truth. A strong, and perfectly natural curiosity is felt, even as to the biography of illustrious persons who have flourished at remote periods, or in foreign climes: but their lives are destitute of that peculiar interest which is attached to those, of our cotemporary fellow-countrymen, and immediate predecessors. Under this conviction, the present work has been undertaken. Its object is, to present a luminous view of men and measures during a recent and most important period of British History - namely, from the accession of George the First to the demise of George the Fourth. In comparison with the Elizabethan or the Modern Augustan, (as the reign of Anne has been designated, ) that which may be appropriately termed The Georgian Era, possesses a paramount claim to notice: for not only has it been equally fertile in conspicuous characters, and more prolific of great events, but its influence is actually felt by the existing community of Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Clarke Clarke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780366690015

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Excerpt from The Georgian Era, Vol. 1 of 4: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, Who Have Flourished in Great Britain, From the Accession of George the First to the Demise of George the Fourth; The Royal Family, the Pretenders and Their Adherents, Churchmen, Dissenters, and Statesmen A few memoirs of eminent persons, accidentally omitted in the body of the work, are located in Appendices to the respective classes, at the end of each volume, among summary sketches of those who have been mere satellites to their more illustrious cotemporaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Amanda Vickery
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0300188560

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From the award-winning author of The Gentleman’s Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own. Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterer’s ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition. The basis of a 3-part TV series for BBC2. “Vickery is that rare thing, an…historian who writes like a novelist.”—Jane Schilling, Daily Mail “Comparison between Vickery and Jane Austen is irresistible…This book is almost too pleasurable, in that Vickery's style and delicious nosiness conceal some seriously weighty scholarship.”—Lisa Hilton, The Independent “If until now the Georgian home has been like a monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three dimensional and vibrantly colored. Behind Closed Doors demonstrates that rigorous academic work can also be nosy, gossipy, and utterly engaging.”—Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review

Author : Roy Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1101622865

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An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :

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This illustrated volume traces the social and cultural history of Britain from the early 15th to the late 18th century. The maps and photographs focus on archaeological and historical sites held by the British National Trust and the book develops themes including wealth and status, agriculture and rural society, town and industry, population and the family, religion and education, and also spotlights particular events such as the Wars of the Roses, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Great Plague and Jacobitism. A full list of National Trust sites is provided to encourage readers to visit these and other properties where visual remains consolidate the investigations in the atlas itself.

Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1643138820

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A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history: the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic, and political change. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions—where Beethoven's thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion. Once more, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank, and wore; where they shopped and how they amused themselves; what they believed in, and what they were afraid of. Conveying the sights, sound,s and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral—the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience.

Author : Kristine Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :

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Provides period information on home furnishings, fashion, medicine, the courts, entertainment, shopping, travel, and etiquette.

Author : Clarke Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781331936084

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Excerpt from The Georgian Era, Vol. 4 of 4: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, Who Have Flourished in Great Britain, From the Accession of George the First to the Demise of George the Fourth This eminent legislator, the son of Admiral Sir William Penn, knight, and descended from an ancient family in the counties of Wilts and Bucks, was born in the parish of St. Catherine, London, in the year 1644. He received the first part of his education at a school in Chigwell, Essex, and, after some further instruction under a private tutor, was, in 1660, entered a gentleman commoner of Christchurch College, Oxford. His conduct at the university gave a favourable specimen of what might be expected from a character so firm and conscientious. Having imbibed religious impressions very strongly, he relinquished manly sports and recreations, though naturally addicted to them, and joined some other students in private meetings for devotional exercises. The heads of his college, at first, fined him for this mark, as they called it, of a sectarian spirit; and, as Penn persisted in his course, dismissed him from the university. He was then only seventeen years of age, and his father was so much incensed at seeing him return home under such unpropitious circumstances, that, after a severe remonstrance, he turned him out of doors. In the hope, however, of reclaiming him, he tried milder measures, one of which was to send him on his travels. He returned to England, after having passed two years in France, and bad so far justified his fathers anticipations, as to have become, in that time, an accomplished and fashionable young man. He had even grown such a skilful swordsman, that, it is said, he disarmed a person who had assaulted him in the streets of Paris. Shortly after his return, he was entered a student of Lincolns Inn, and continued his legal pursuits in the metropolis till compelled to leave it, by the plague. In 1666, he went into Ireland, to superintend the management of one of his fathers estates. In this country his former sentiments began to revive; and, having become a hearer of the discourses of one Loe, whose preaching had formerly affected him, he, at length, openly joined the fraternity of Quakers. In 1667, at one of their assemblies in Cork, he was apprehended, and carried to prison; but he wrote such an excellent letter on the subject, to the Earl of Orrery, that his liberation speedily followed. His father, at the same time, recalled him home, and, convinced of the unalterable sentiments of his son, no longer opposed them. He, however, could not forbear stipulating, that Penn would, at least, consent to stand uncovered in the presence of the king, the Duke of York, and himself; and the subject of our memoir having, after due consideration, refused this, was again banished his family. In this situation, he lived partly on the charity of friends, and partly on private supplies from his mother. At length, his father, whose prejudices were unable to overcome the affection and respect he could not but feel for his son, received him home again; and, when he was imprisoned for attendance on the meetings of his sect, used secretly his influence to restore him to freedom. In 1668, he published a tract, entitled, Truth Exalted; and appearing, about the same time, as a preacher as well as a writer among the Quakers, he was committed to the Tower. Here he wrote his most famous work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1243 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : History
ISBN :

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The Life and Times of Queen Victoria in 4 volumes is a historical account on the reign of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom who held the throne for the big part of the 19th century, from 1837 to 1901. Enriched with numerous illustrations, the book describes the famous Victorian period in UK history. Starting with the death of her predecessor William IV, the work narrates the life of Queen Victoria and along with it deals with the history of United Kingdom and her dominions through the rest of the 19th century.