Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... women ( Sarah , Lady Masham , and the Duchess of Somer- set ) who were Anne's confidantes , the two women who were George I's bedfellows , and the one woman who suf- fered marriage with George II , we may almost dismiss their sex from ...
... women ( Sarah , Lady Masham , and the Duchess of Somer- set ) who were Anne's confidantes , the two women who were George I's bedfellows , and the one woman who suf- fered marriage with George II , we may almost dismiss their sex from ...
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... Women do not appear to have read much . There was a vogue for tattle , and they presumably looked at the news- sheets ; but the appeal of the Spectators and their like was rather more among the middle classes . The period was just ...
... Women do not appear to have read much . There was a vogue for tattle , and they presumably looked at the news- sheets ; but the appeal of the Spectators and their like was rather more among the middle classes . The period was just ...
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... women in the intellectual world of Augustan England . It was a despicable place , and women were groomed for it by despicable educations . Englishmen never brought back from the Continent any appreciation of the European salon ; they ...
... women in the intellectual world of Augustan England . It was a despicable place , and women were groomed for it by despicable educations . Englishmen never brought back from the Continent any appreciation of the European salon ; they ...
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