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Written by P.J.C. Field. By D.S.Brewer.
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No comments about The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory (Arthurian Studies).
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Written by Campbell and John Campbell. By Ashgate Publishing.
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No comments about Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness (Modern Revivals in History).
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Written by Samuel Pepys. By IndyPublish.com.
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No comments about The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys).
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Written by Heman Humphrey. By J.S. and C. Adams.
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No comments about Death of President Harrison: A discourse delivered in the village church in Amherst, Mass., on the morning of the annual state fast, April 8, 1841.
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No comments about Lloyd George (Great Lives Observed).
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By Kessinger Publishing, LLC.
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No comments about The Letters And Speeches Of Oliver Cromwell V2: With Elucidations by Thomas Carlyle.
Posted in Biography (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by B. J. C. McKercher. By Cambridge University Press.
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No comments about Esme Howard: A Diplomatic Biography.
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Written by Andrei Volgin. By Adamant Media Corporation.
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No comments about Storia documentata di Venezia: Tomo 5.
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Written by Eugenio F. Biagini. By Palgrave Macmillan.
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1 comments about Gladstone (British History in Perspective).
- This is the political life story of the Grand Old Man of British politics (GOM). William E. Gladstone certainly did influence British politics for over fifty years, and was elected to the Prime Minister position four times. This short book (or thesis) explained his political development through those fifty years. He moved from a Conservative on social issues to that of a Liberal or even Radical position. His championship of Irish Home Rule kept Ireland within the British Empire for thirty more years. This man and his political position kept the radical left from many popular positions.
The unfortunate part of this book is that it reads like a thesis. It probably was a thesis and as such will not attract much interest from the general public. I did learn a great deal about this most influencial of British politicians.
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Posted in Biography (Thursday, August 21, 2008)
Written by Pamela Neville-Sington. By Viking Adult.
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3 comments about Fanny Trollope: 0The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman.
- A sturdy account of the life of an interesting and productive woman, now underestimated as a writer, is seriously marred by the scent of dissertation that hangs over it. Too often the best writing belongs to extended quotes from the subject's fiction presented as biographical facts. It reads very much like a dissertation on "Possible Parallels between the Life and Fiction of Fanny Trollope" with both the juicy bits of life and fiction, and the weasel words of academic caution omitted. I would have found some family trees of the tightly interlocking social circles Fanny Trollope moved in far more intriguing than the illustrations included.
- This is one of those biographies in which the writer assumes that the subject's life is reflected in her fiction. It's a chore to separate the fictional quotations from the actual life. It's also one of those annoying biographies that is full of phrases like "She may have. . ." and "We may assume that she. . . ." When the biographer has no facts, she puts her subject into the contemporary scene and then suggests activities for her that she may or may not have engaged in. This method of writing biography is dreadfully out of date.
- Frances Trollope, mother of the far more famous Anthony Trollope, was a prolific, talented writer herself. Neville-Sington, in this excellent biography, makes Frances or Fanny come alive again. She makes a strong case that much of what we think of as invented by the son actually originated with the mother: the interconnected Barchester and Palister novels had their parallel in three novels by Frances Trollope. Well worthwhile. Well worthwhile.
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