Meet the Georgians : epic tales from Britain's wildest century
Peal, Robert2021
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Place reservation for Meet the Georgians : epic tales from Britain's wildest centuryAnne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean. Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay. Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world. Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women's rights. Ladies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valley. 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' is how Lord Byron, the poet who drank wine from a monk's skull and slept with his half-sister, was described by one of his many lovers. But 'mad, bad and dangerous' serves as a good description for the entire Georgian period: often neglected, the hundred or so years between the coronation of George I in 1714 and the death of George IV in 1830 were years when the modern world was formed, and changes came thick and fast.
Main title:
Author:
Peal, Robert, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2021.
Collation:
xxxii, 268 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780008437022 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.07941.070922941.0709
LC class:
DA480
Local class:
941.07920
Language:
English
BRN:
2860639
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