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The Memoirs of Helen of Troy

A Novel

By: Amanda Elyot

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As despised as she was desired, Helen of Troy is one of history's most notorious women. In this groundbreaking and richly dramatic novel, the familiar story of passion and violence is told from a new perspective: that of Helen herself.

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Three Rivers Press (CA)

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0307338606

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9780307338600

By a Lady

Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England

By: Amanda Elyot

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Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England

By: Amanda Elyot

A tale of time travel, true love, and Jane Austen New York actress C.J. Welles, a die-hard Jane Austen fan, is on the verge of landing her dream role: portraying her idol in a Broadway play. But during her final audition, she is mysteriously transported to Bath, England, in the year 1801. And Georgian England, with its rigid and unforgiving social structure and limited hygienic facilities, is not quite the picturesque costume drama C.J. had always imagined. Just as she wishes she could click her heels together and return to Manhattan, C.J. meets the delightfully eccentric Lady Dalrymple, a widowed countess who takes C.J. into her home, introducing her as a poor relation to Georgian society—including the dashing Earl of Darlington and his cousin, Jane Austen! When a crisis develops, C.J.—in a race against time—becomes torn between two centuries. An attempt to return to her own era might mean forfeiting her blossoming romance with the irresistible Darlington and her growing friendship with Jane Austen, but it’s a risk she must take. And in the midst of this remarkable series of events, C.J. discovers something even more startling—a secret from her own past that may explain how she wound up in Bath in the first place.

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Crown

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0307345327

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9780307345325

Too Great A Lady

The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton

By: Amanda Elyot

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Too Great A Lady

The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton

By: Amanda Elyot

Emma Hamilton is renowned as the real-life heroine of the greatest love story in British history, as legendary for her beauty as for her passionate love affair with Britain’s greatest hero, Lord Horatio Nelson. Amanda Elyot breathes new life into this remarkable woman, in what might have been Emma’s very own words. The impoverished daughter of an illiterate country farrier, young Emily Lyon sold coal by the roadside to help put food on the family’s table. By the time she was 15, she had made her way from London nursemaid to vivacious courtesan, and continued a meteoric rise through society, rung by slippery rung, to become the most talked-about woman in all of Europe, mistress of many tongues, a key envoy in Britain’s and Italy’s war against the French, and confidante to a queen. This novel, inspired by her remarkable life, recounts Emma’s many extraordinary adventures, the earth-shattering passion she eventually found with Lord Nelson, and how they braved the censure of king and country, risking all in the name of true love. “A thoughtful retelling of the life of a common-born beauty and her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson.”—Susan Holloway, author of Duchess “An energetic portrait of a unique historical figure.”—Publishers Weekly

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373

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Penguin

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110109821X

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All for Love

The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson

By: Amanda Elyot

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All for Love

The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson

By: Amanda Elyot

A fictional portrait of eighteenth-century British actress Mary Robinson follows her life from the harsh poverty of debtors' prison, to the glamour, success, and scandal of the London stage, to her shocking public affair with the Prince of Wales, to her subsequent career as a poet, novelist, and ardent supporter of women's rights. By the author of Too Great a Lady. Original.

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452

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Penguin

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0451222970

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9780451222978

Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

By: Amanda Eubanks Winkler

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Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

By: Amanda Eubanks Winkler

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

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261

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Cambridge University Press

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1108490867

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9781108490863

The Gentleman's Daughter

Women's Lives in Georgian England

By: Amanda Vickery

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The Gentleman's Daughter

Women's Lives in Georgian England

By: Amanda Vickery

Based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in provincial England, this book provides an account of the lives of genteel women in Georgian times.

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Yale University Press

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0300177216

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9780300177213

Flaunting

Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England

By: Amanda Bailey

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Flaunting

Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England

By: Amanda Bailey

In the early modern period, the theatrical stage offered one of the most popular forms of entertainment and aesthetic pleasure. It also fulfilled an important cultural function by displaying modes of behaviour and dramatizing social interaction within a community. Flaunting argues that the theatre in late sixteenth-century England created the conditions for a subculture of style whose members came to distinguish themselves by their sartorial extravagance and social impudence. Drawing on evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, accounts of playhouse practices, and stage plays, Amanda Bailey critiques standard accounts maintaining that those who flaunted their apparel were simply aspirants, or gaudy versions of the superiors they sought to emulate. Instead, she suggests that what mattered most was not what these young men wore but how they wore their clothes. These young men shared a distinctive sartorial sensibility and used that sensibility to undermine authority at all levels of society. Flaunting therefore, examines male style as a visual form of subversion against the norms of Renaissance England with the stage as the primary source of inspiration for collective identification. A glimpse into both the celebration of and opposition to social irreverence in the early modern period, Flaunting is a fascinating historical account of drama, fashion, and rebellion with surprisingly close parallels to the contemporary world.

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201

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University of Toronto Press

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080209242X

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9780802092427

Tottel's Miscellany

Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others

By: Amanda Holton

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Tottel's Miscellany

Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others

By: Amanda Holton

Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt's intimate poem about lost love which begins 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seke', and Surrey's passionate sonnet 'Complaint of a lover rebuked' are joined in the miscellany by a large collection of diverse, intriguingly anonymous poems both moral and erotic, intimate and universal.

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592

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Penguin UK

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014193378X

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9780141933788

The English it-Cleft

A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation

By: Amanda Patten

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The English it-Cleft

A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation

By: Amanda Patten

This book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar. It defends a straightforward extraposition-from-NP analysis (on which the cleft clause is a restrictive relative, modifying the initial it) and claims that all types of it-cleft involve nominal predication. Support for this analysis comes from three main areas: (a) the central role of definiteness in the creation of specificational meaning, (b) the existence and makeup of predicational (and proverbial) it-clefts, and (c) the early, historical it-cleft data. In addition, the book contains a sizeable diachronic component, drawing data from the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English and from the International Corpus of English - Great Britain. This investigation informs and advances what is an otherwise simple account of the English it-cleft, explaining how and why the configuration has developed an assortment of peculiar, construction-specific properties over time.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110279525

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9783110279528

The Memoirs of Helen of Troy

A Novel

By: Amanda Elyot

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A Novel

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Too Great A Lady

The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton

By: Amanda Elyot

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The Notorious, Glorious Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton

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By a Lady

Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England

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Being the Adventures of an Enlightened American in Jane Austen's England

By: Amanda Elyot

During an audition for a play about Jane Austen, New York actress C. J. Welles is transported back in time to Bath, England, at the turn of the nineteenth century, where she is befriended by the eccentric Lady Euphoria Dalrymple, falls for Owen Percival, the Earl of Darlington, the cousin of Jane Austen, and finds herself torn between two different eras. Original. 30,000 first printing.

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Broadway Books

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1400097991

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All For Love

The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson

By: Amanda Elyot

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All For Love

The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson

By: Amanda Elyot

The amorous adventures of a celebrated English courtesan come to life in a novel rich with the pageantry of history—and with the notorious desires of the men and women who helped to define it. Overnight she became a star. Over many nights she became a legend. At only fifteen, Mary Robinson was married off to an unfaithful wastrel. During the next seven years, her spellbinding talent, beauty, and drive would lead her from the denigration of debtors’ prison to the London stages, where a star was born. With the heart of a poet and face of an angel she was sold as society’s darling. Though dubbed “the priestess of taste” for her dashing style, her unabashed exploits made her the queen of scandal, envied by women worldwide, and desired by every man within reach. From Mary Robinson’s shocking affair with the Prince of Wales and the fortuitous liaisons that titillated the country, to heartbreaking betrayals and a restless pursuit of true romance, this breathtaking novel paints a vivid portrait of a woman who changed history by doing as she pleased—for money, for fame, for pleasure, and above all, for love. Praise for Amanda Elyot’s novels: “Fresh and wickedly clever.”—Mary Jo Putney, author of Angel Rogue “Rippingly bawdy.”—Publishers Weekly “A fresh take on a legendary woman.”—Library Journal “Sweeping, emotionally intense.”—Historical Novels Review

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1101211504

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The Memoirs of Helen of Troy

The Memoirs of Helen of Troy

By a Lady

By a Lady

Too Great A Lady

Too Great A Lady

All for Love

All for Love

Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

The Gentleman's Daughter

The Gentleman's Daughter

Flaunting

Flaunting

Tottel's Miscellany

Tottel's Miscellany

The English it-Cleft

The English it-Cleft

The Memoirs of Helen of Troy

The Memoirs of Helen of Troy

Too Great A Lady

Too Great A Lady

By a Lady

By a Lady

All For Love

All For Love

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