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Excerpt from The Amazing Duchess, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Romantic History of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Maid of Honour, the Hon. Mrs. Hervey, Duchess of Kingston, and Countess of BristolThus wrote Thackeray of Beatrix Esmond, having in his mind the wayward, the puzzling, the elusive Elizabeth Chudleigh. One could wish that the great satirist of men and manners had, with the vivid pen which drew the terrible picture of a very different woman - one, i...

Excerpt from Love Besieged: A Romance of the Defense of LucknowMore than half-a-century has passed since the Mutiny of 1857 shook the structure of our supremacy in India to its very foundations. The causes of the disaffection, the identity of the actual leaders, the methods of organisation, are as mysterious now as they were then. Time has done little to add to our knowledge of the native of India. He moves slowly and silently, he goes about h...

Excerpt from A Queen of the Paddock: A Romance of the Race CourseBut it was not solely for these accomplishments that Violetta had been sent to Montpellier House. Captain Vaughan, her father, who if he never seemed to be blest with this world's coin, had plenty of the world's wisdom and experience, told his daughter to make advantageous acquaintances among the aristocratic pupils, and she had not failed to take the parental advice.Ella Norman,...

Excerpt from A Romance of Delhi, Vol. 1 of 2Cornet Anson's eyes wandered once more to the Nautch girls. If they would only do something with their arms other than what seemed to him like an attempt to swim From his boyish point of View there was nothing that was fascinating in the women who smiled mechanically, and whose betel-stained teeth almost made him shudder. Moreover, the dancers were no longer girls. One was thirty at least. Nor were t...

Excerpt from The Beloved Princess: Princess Charlotte of Wales, the Lonely Daughter of a Lonely QueenHE short life of the Princess Charlotte comprises within its two-and-twenty years, less two months, one of the most eventful periods in English history. Abroad the restless ambition of Bonaparte was con vulsing the whole of Europe. At home, apart from the anxiety concerning our arms in Spain and Portugal, and the fear of the 1nvasion of these s...

Excerpt from Te Karere, Vol. 44: Hanuere, 1949Second prize - One bound volume of the 1948 Te Karere issues and a copy of the book Ready Reference.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original for...

Excerpt from Te Karere, Vol. 44: Hanuere, 1949Second prize - One bound volume of the 1948 Te Karere issues and a copy of the book Ready Reference.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original for...

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Excerpt from Polly Peachum: Being the Story of Lavinia Fenton (Duchess of Bolton) And "the Beggar's Opera" The Beggar's Opera - Its good luck - Lady novelists of the times - Voltaire - Pope. Nearly two centuries ago there stood on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham a comfortable, if hardly picturesque, house, surrounded by a model garden, with shady groves, a cool grotto where a spring continually rilled, and a lawn sloping down to the pl...

The romantic history of Elizabeth Chudleigh, made of honor, the hon. Mrs. Hervey, Duchess of Kingston and Countess of Bristol, volume two of two.

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Excerpt from The Amazing Duchess, Vol. 2 of 2: Being the Romantic History of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Maid of Honour, the Hon. Mrs. Hervey, Duchess of Kingston, and Countess of Bristol The duchess no longer a favourite at the Court of Russia - She determines to settle in Paris - The history of her life, written by herself - Is taken in over the purchase of a house - Commences an action at law - Buys an estate and chateau at St. Assise - Takes a h...

Excerpt from A Romance of Delhi, Vol. 1 of 2 It is the spring of 1851. In the Delhi plains the mornings are close and muggy, a yellow, jaundice-like haze hangs over the levels, the winds are hot and dry, a foretaste of the scorching months of May and June. The animal and vegetable worlds show signs of the approaching season. Sheep find little to tempt them in the dry grass, and bleat mournfully, crows and minahs open their beaks and gasp. Myr...

Excerpt from Love Besieged: A Romance of the Defense of Lucknow More than half-a-century has passed since the Mutiny of 1857 shook the structure of our supremacy in India to its very foundations. The causes of the disaffection, the identity of the actual leaders, the methods of organisation, are as mysterious now as they were then. Time has done little to add to our knowledge of the native of India. He moves slowly and silently, he goes about...

Excerpt from The Beloved Princess: Princess Charlotte of Wales, the Lonely Daughter of a Lonely QueenHE short life of the Princess Charlotte comprises within its two-and-twenty years, less two months, one of the most eventful periods in English history. Abroad the restless ambition of Bonaparte was con vulsing the whole of Europe. At home, apart from the anxiety concerning our arms in Spain and Portugal, and the fear of the 1nvasion of these s...

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Excerpt from A Queen of the Paddock: A Romance of the Race CourseBut it was not solely for these accomplishments that Violetta had been sent to Montpellier House. Captain Vaughan, her father, who if he never seemed to be blest with this world's coin, had plenty of the world's wisdom and experience, told his daughter to make advantageous acquaintances among the aristocratic pupils, and she had not failed to take the parental advice.Ella Norman,...

Excerpt from The Jolly Duchess: Harriot Mellon, Afterwards Mrs. Coutts and the Duchess of St. Albans, A Sixty Years' Gossipping Record of Stage and Society (1777 to 1837)Miss farren From an engraving by Ridley, in Mr. A. M. Broadley's Collection.The earl OF derby From an engraving by A. Smith, after R. Oorbould, in Mr. A. M. Broadl ey's Collection.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

Excerpt from Madame Vestris and Her TimesCopy for the journalist, and a diligent perusal of the newspapers of the period supplies ample material for the iographer. Of this material I have fully availed myself, justification, I hope, being found in the endeavour to picture the characteristics of a fascinating and remarkable woman and in the desire to do justice to her one - and-twenty years' in¿uence on dramatic art as the first woman theatrica...