George and Emily Eden: Pride, Privilege, Empire and the Whigs - Couverture souple

Allen, Brigid

 
9780718897444: George and Emily Eden: Pride, Privilege, Empire and the Whigs
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0718897447 ISBN 13 : 9780718897444
Editeur : Lutterworth Press, 2024

Synopsis

George and Emily Eden were a devoted sibling pair. Both unmarried, they were accepted as a mildly unconventional couple by friends in the dynastically conscious governing class. George (1784-1849) entered politics as a Whig to replace his elder brother, who had been groomed for success but drowned in the Thames off Westminster one January night in 1810. Four years later George inherited his father's peerage as 2nd Baron Auckland. In 1835 he was appointed Governor-General of India, and Emily (1797-1869), although reluctant to leave her close friend, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, went with him. A witty and perceptive writer, who later published a distinctively voiced pair of novels, Emily chronicled the Indian period, as she did her entire adult life, in letters. Allen traces the development of her closeness to George, their interlocking private and public lives and the events that impacted on them, including the Afghan disaster of January 1842 and the mixture of blame and forbearance that George attracted at home. A poignant coda describes Emily's final twenty years as Victorian invalid, author, and observer of the political scene.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brigid Allen studied History at Somerville College, Oxford and has a Ph.D from University College London. She has worked as an editorial researcher and archivist in many areas, from the papers of the American statesman Alexander Hamilton to private papers of the 19th- and 20th-century British in India. Her books and articles reflect diverse interests from diaries to food history, including the acclaimed literary biography Peter Levi, Oxford Romantic (2014).

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Éditeur
Lutterworth Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0718897447
ISBN 13 
9780718897444
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
323
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ISBN 10 :  0718897455 ISBN 13 :  9780718897451
Editeur : Lutterworth Press, 2024
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