ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1993
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

THE GRAND QUARREL (**FOLIO SOCIETY**)

The Grand Quarrel – Civil War Memoirs
From The Civil War Memoirs Of Mrs Lucy Hutchinson; Mrs Alice Thornton; Ann, Lady Fanshawe; Margaret, Duchess Of Newcastle; Anne, & The Letters Of Brilliana, Lady Harley

Features;

Folio Society First Edition No. 739
Publisher Folio Society, London; 1993
Dark Blue Buckram Blocked In Gilt Hardback, 256 pp
With contemporary prints and paintings
Size 240 x 165mm

This work draws together the memoirs of women involved in the English Civil War, on both sides. The accounts of wives and daughters provide an insight into women`s experiences of the time for general reader and historian alike. They include the Duchess of Newcastle (who has been called `the first English woman writer`) on her husband`s role at the battle of Marston Moor in 1644; royalist Lucy Hutchinson, whose writing has the immediacy of a diary; Ann Fanshawe`s memoirs of 1676, written so a son could know a father killed in battle (and valued by Virginia Woolf for their `candour and simplicity`); and Brilliana Harley, who describes her own active role in the fighting of the English Civil War for her son, Ned. The introduction sets the writings in historical context, describes the families of the women, and comments briefly on the writings` literary and historical value. Thh book also includes a chronology, biographical notes on the women and family trees.

Odlično očuvana knjiga.

eng.