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Young Romantics

The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By: Daisy Hay

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Young Romantics

The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By: Daisy Hay

A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist and editor of The Examiner, took centre stage. He bound together the restless Shelley and his brilliant wife Mary, author of Frankenstein; Mary's feisty step-sister Claire Clairmont, who became Byron's lover and the mother of his child; and Hunt's charismatic sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent. With authority, sparkling prose and constant insight Daisy Hay describes their travels in France, Switzerland and Italy, their artistic triumphs, their headstrong ways, their grievous losses and their devastating tragedies. Young Romantics explores the history of the group, from its inception in Leigh Hunt's prison cell in 1813 to its ultimate disintegration in the years following 1822. It encompasses tales of love, betrayal, sacrifice and friendship, all of which were played out against a background of political turbulence and intense literary creativity. This smouldering turmoil of strained relationships and insular friendships would ferment to inspire the drama of Frankenstein, the heady idealism of Shelley's poetry, and Byron's own self-loathing, self-loving public persona. Above all the characters are rendered on the page with marvellous vitality, and this is a gloriously entrancing and revelatory read, the debut of a young biographer of the highest calibre and enormous promise.

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340

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A&C Black

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ISBN 10

1408818124

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9781408818121

Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

A Strange Romance

By: Daisy Hay

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Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

A Strange Romance

By: Daisy Hay

Originally published: Great Britain: Chatto & Windus, 2015.

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321

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Macmillan

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0374270635

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9780374270636

Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

By: Daisy Hay

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Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

By: Daisy Hay

A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin Once a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation brilliant and unpredictable. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life. In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today. Johnson’s years as a publisher, 1760 to 1809, witnessed profound political, social, cultural and religious changes—from the American and French revolutions to birth of the Romantic age—and many of his dinner guests and authors were at the center of events. The shifting constellation of extraordinary people at Johnson’s table included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, the scientist Joseph Priestly and the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, as well as a group of extraordinary women—Mary Wollstonecraft, the novelist Maria Edgeworth, and the poet Anna Barbauld. These figures pioneered revolutions in science and medicine, proclaimed the rights of women and children and charted the evolution of Britain’s relationship with America and Europe. As external forces conspired to silence their voices, Johnson made them heard by continuing to publish them, just as his table gave them refuge. A rich work of biography and cultural history, Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an entertaining and enlightening story of a group of people who left an indelible mark on the modern age.

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536

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Princeton University Press

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0691243964

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9780691243962

Bordeaux Housewives

By: Daisy Waugh

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Bordeaux Housewives

By: Daisy Waugh

A new start. With old secrets . . . Who hasn’t dreamed of running away from it all? The Haunt family have gone and clone it. On an impulse, Maude, her husband Horatio and their two small children have left their tiny London terrace for the sunflower fields and the vie rustique of Southern France. Up the road, the scruffy Hotel Marronnier is about to change hands again. Daffy Fielding has fallen in love with the place and has dragged her husband to France to persuade him to buy it. Which he does—before heading straight back home to his mistress. Can timid Daffy make a life for herself alone? Watching over all the new arrivals is the glamorous, predatory, eternally bored Lady Emma Rankin. From her exquisite chateau nearby, she pulls strings to bring the new wives together. But is it Horatio, rather than Maude, who she really wants to sip Sancerre with? Or is her eye on the gorgeous local builder, the only one of them all who is party to the Haunt family's explosive secret? Praise for Daisy Waugh: ‘Sparkling fun.’—Heat ‘Full of laugh-out-loud funny bits.’—New Woman

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376

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Speaking Volumes

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1645402363

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9781645402367

The Missing Thread

A Women's History of the Ancient World

By: Daisy Dunn

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The Missing Thread

A Women's History of the Ancient World

By: Daisy Dunn

A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women—whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power—were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it. In this monumental work, Dunn reconceives our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it. The Missing Thread never relegates women to the sidelines and is populated with well-known names such as Cleopatra and Agrippina, as well as the likes of Achaemenid consort Atossa and Olympias, a force in Macedon. Spanning three thousand years, the story moves from Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece, from Lesbos to Asia Minor, from the Persian Empire to the royal court of Macedonia, and concludes with Rome and its growing empire. The women of antiquity are undeniably woven throughout the fabric of history, and in The Missing Thread they finally take center stage.

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497

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Penguin

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0593299663

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9780593299661

Don't Be a Slave to What You Crave

By: Daisy Merey

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Don't Be a Slave to What You Crave

By: Daisy Merey

This is the first book to separate 'stomach hunger' from 'mental hunger', explain the crucial differences between the two, and provide truly effective weight-loss treatments targeted to each type. You will learn why you crave what you crave, and how to manage your cravings. These are the real keys to losing weightand keeping it from coming back. Dr Merey is a leading expert on obesity and was past President of the International Academy of Bariatric Physicians. For over 21 years she has been treating patients who have struggled with weight loss, obesity, and disease.

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370

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SPI Books, U.S.

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1561719994

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9781561719990

Book's by Daisy Murray

Young Romantics

Young Romantics

Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli

Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Dinner with Joseph Johnson

Bordeaux Housewives

Bordeaux Housewives

The Missing Thread

The Missing Thread

Don't Be a Slave to What You Crave

Don't Be a Slave to What You Crave

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