Disraeli's Disciple : The Scandalous Life of George Smythe /
She also documents Smythe's numerous and often disreputable love affairs with remarkable partners: the French countess thirty years his senior, the Anglican priest who wrote him passionate poetry, the circus equestrienne he groomed for marriage to an Earl, and the Scottish heiress he married as...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chronology 1818�75""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Prologue: The Wild Ass's Skin""; ""1 A Splendid Failure?""; ""2 1400�1817: The Strangford Inheritance""; ""3 1818�26: Cradled in Commotions""; ""4 1826�35: George Smythe's Schooldays""; ""5 1836�7: Herstmonceux and Cambridge""; ""6 1837�8: Faber""; ""7 1838�9: Pearls and Swine""; ""8 1840: Lady Tankerville""; ""9 1841: Heaven-Born Statesman or Devil-Born Orator""; ""10 1841: I Am a Very Zero""; ""11 1842: Young England""; ""12 1843: Worrying Peel � and Reading Casanova""
- ""13 1844: Coningsby and Historic Fancies""""14 1844: The Pursuit of Psyche""; ""15 1845: The Double Game""; ""16 1846: Falling Upstairs � and Down""; ""17 1847: With a Tongue and a Pen of His Own""; ""18 1848�9: Very Like Assassination""; ""19 1850�2: Diplomatic Moves""; ""20 1852: Something about the Duke""; ""21 1853�5: The Stage-Box of My Soul""; ""22 1856�7: Bed-Ridden Lovelace""; ""Afterwards""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""
- ""V""""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Illustrations""