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  • John Wilkes

    The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty

    by Arthur H. Cash ...
    Pulitzer Prize Finalist: A biography of the wildly colorful eighteenth-century British politician who became "the toast of American revolutionaries" ( Booklist).One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726–97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, a defender of civil and political liberties—and a hero to American colonists. Wilkes's political ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laurence Sterne

    The Later Years

    by Arthur Cash ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sterne’s life and career from the moment of recognition brought by the successful publication of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy, to the publication in 1768 of A Sentimental Journey and its author’s death three weeks later. Sterne, a consumptive who knew that he would meet an early death, was determined to pack into his life all the writing ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Laurence Sterne

    The Early and Middle Years

    by Arthur Cash ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1975, Laurence Sterne is biography of Sterne’s life which emphasizes those experiences which informed Sterne’s fiction. The book is based on an exhaustive search for original documents, and a study of the social, political, and ecclesiastical institutions which shaped Sterne’s world. We see the novelist as a soldier’s child, student, struggling young cleric, Yorkshire famer, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Mysterious Mistress

    The Life and Legend of Jane Shore

    by Margaret Crosland ...
    Jane Shore often gets just a byline in history. We know her name, and that she was the mistress of a king. But who was this woman caputred for the stage by Shakespeare in Richard III, fictionalised by Jean Plaidy and others? Where did she come from? And how was it that having been mistress to the most powerful man in the land, she ended her years in prison and poverty?Jane Shore was born into a ... Read more

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  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

    by Janet Todd ...
    'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet of the erotic ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Weaker Vessel

    Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

    by Antonia Fraser ...
    The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous century between the death of Elizabeth and Queen Anne’s assumption of the throne. More than a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789

    by Paul Baines, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers ...
    The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing**1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789.Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorshipTakes advantage of newly expanded ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Wilberforce

    by John Pollock ...
    "Vivid and painstakingly researched biography." —Daily Telegraph"Wilberforce modeled a combination of Christian principle and tactical genius as relevant in the twenty-first century as in his own time." —William Hague"The biography is the product of much painstaking research. John Pollock has made use of virtually all the extant manuscript collections containing Wilberforce materials. He gives a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Prices of Books

    An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods

    by Henry B. Wheatley ...
    In "Prices of Books," Henry B. Wheatley offers a meticulous examination of book pricing throughout history, intertwining economic theory with bibliographic scholarship. This work, written in a lucid yet scholarly style, provides deep insights into the factors influencing book prices, from the costs of production to market demands. Wheatley meticulously catalogs various pricing trends while ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford English Literary History

    Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century

    by Margaret J. M. Ezell ...
    Series series Oxford English Literary History
    The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Temptation and Downfall of the Vicar of Stanton Lacy

    by Peter Klein ...
    A married vicar with a passion for a young single woman, a bitter publican, a Peeping Tom, a resentful church warden: our human frailties are still much as they always have been.Over three hundred years ago, the Reverend Robert Foulkes arrived as the new incumbent at the wealthy parish of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire. Charismatic, 'exceedingly followed and admired', he set off a chain of events which ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Family

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Family Influences on Shakespeare's Iconic Works

    by C. C. Stopes, Rachel Kirk ...
    In "Shakespeare's Family," C. C. Stopes offers a profound exploration of the domestic world and lineage of one of literature's most celebrated figures, William Shakespeare. Through meticulous analysis of historical documents, genealogical records, and societal context, Stopes unveils the intricate web of family relationships that shaped Shakespeare's life and, by extension, his works. The text is ... Read more

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