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Hace 11 horas · Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist ...
Hace 5 días · Pasionaria vendéenne, intrépide amazone, toujours par les chemins, proche de la duchesse de Berry, adepte de la chasse à courre et montant ses chevaux à cru, « l’héroïque comtesse » n’a rien à envier à ses illustres devancières, Jeanne de Belleville, Mathilde de Toscane... ou encore, plus près d’elle, Anne de Rochechouart, Lady Mary Montagu ou Lady Hester Stanhope.
Hace 3 días · Pitt told Hester Stanhope that he must remain unmarried 'for my King and country's sake', Ehrman commenting 'The words, addressed to marriage, might be taken in a comprehensive sense. For Pitt in essence was indeed single, af fectionate in private but fulfilled in public.
Hace 3 días · When forced, from 1801 to 1804, to live in solitary grandeur at Walmer Castle, in the company of his niece, Lady Hester Stanhope, while Addington, whom he had raised to the highest posts from comparative obscurity, filled his place, he supported life only by the anticipation of a speedy return to Downing Street.
Hace 1 día · In real life, Hester Stanhope, an adventurous archaeologist and the niece of British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, is another remarkable historical figure with this name. She defied the gender norms of her time by leading expeditions in the Middle East in the early 19th century, gaining recognition as a pioneering woman in the male-dominated field of archaeology.
Hace 5 días · At his funeral on 5 June, republican demonstrators rallied the crowds, waving red flags and calling for “liberty or death”. The mood turned ugly, and by the evening rioters had taken control of much of central and eastern Paris, throwing up barricades.
Hace 3 días · His literary assassination of the self-deluded expatriate Lady Hester Stanhope, is ruthless. The influence of Eothen has been felt by generation upon generation of writers. Mark Twain, Peter Fleming, Eric Newby, Robert Byron, Paul Theroux and William Dalrymple have all saluted the book and recognized Kinglake as a stylist without equal.
