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

U dobrom stanju

Folio Society First Edition No. 739
Publisher Folio Society, London; 1993
PP. XLIV+256, 16 plates, 2 full page maps, biographical notes, family trees, chronological table, further reading, index; med. 8vo; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; top edges navy; within navy card slipcase;
With contemporary prints and paintings
Size 240 x 165mm, 1.1kg

The Great Quarrel: From the Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, Mrs. Alice Thornton, Lady Ann Fanshawe, Duchess Margaret of Newcastle, Lady Anne Halkett, & the Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley to Her Son Edward
FEBRUARY 1993
The Grand Quarrel
Edited and introduced by Roger Hudson from the writings of six English Civil War women, with contemporary illustrations

New Royal 8vo (g/2` X 6`//`). Set in Caslott. 304PP approx plus 16 plates. Bound in full buckram blocked with ornaments.

‘THEY plundered my mother and my brothers of all their goods, cut down their woods, pulled down their houses, and sequestered them from their lands and livings. This unnatural war came like a whirlwind . . So the Duchess of Newcastle describes the Civil War which tore seventeenth-century England - and her family - apart. It was a time of unrest and danger, of bloody conflict and shifting allegiances. Above all, it was a time when women, whether Royalist or Parliamentarian, played a role as important as that of their menfolk.

In this book Roger Hudson has edited contemporary memoirs and letters to allow- six Civil War women to speak out over three hundred years after their ordeal. Brave Lucy Hutchinson, who forged documents to join her husband abroad, denounces both the king - ‘the most obstinate person in his self-will that ever was’ - and Cromwell, who fills his ranks with ‘pitiful sottish beasts of his own alliance’. Everyday concerns continue to be of importance - poor Anne Halkett is twice deceived in love, while Alice Thornton receives unwelcome attentions from the billeted Scottish soldier). Ann Fanshawe, heavily pregnant (she was to give birth to fourteen children), tries to get news of her husband. Brilliana Harley writes to her beloved son Ned: ‘Pray send me one of your socks to make you new ones by,’ but she is to die defending her besieged castle. Through danger, frequent childbirth, sickness and want, the voices of these courageous women cut across the years to evoke what Ann Fanshawe describes as ‘the sad spectacle of war’.


Engleski građanski rat, Engleska revolucija, istorija