A History of Mistresses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Mistresses write by Elizabeth Abbott. This book was released on 2010. A History of Mistresses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No Marketing Blurb
Wives and Mistresses
Wives and Mistresses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wives and Mistresses write by Suzanne Morris. This book was released on 2016-01-12. Wives and Mistresses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dynastic tale of two families—the Gerrards and Leiders—as seen through the eyes of four women whose lives are bound by blood and friendship, and interwoven with the destiny of Houston, Texas, for over 70 years.
The Kings' Mistresses
The Kings' Mistresses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kings' Mistresses write by Elizabeth C Goldsmith. This book was released on 2012-04-03. The Kings' Mistresses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no independent status under the law and were entirely a part of their husband's property once married. Marie and Hortense, however, had other ambitions in mind altogether. Miserable in their marriages and determined to live independently, they abandoned their husbands in secret and began lives of extraordinary daring on the run and in the public eye. The beguiling sisters quickly won the affections of noblemen and kings alike. Their flight became popular fodder for salon conversation and tabloids, and was closely followed by seventeenth-century European society. The Countess of Grignan remarked that they were traveling "like two heroines out of a novel." Others gossiped that they "were roaming the countryside in pursuit of wandering lovers. "Their scandalous behavior -- disguising themselves as men, gambling, and publicly disputing with their husbands -- served as more than just entertainment. It sparked discussions across Europe concerning the legal rights of husbands over their wives. Elizabeth Goldsmith's vibrant biography of the Mancini sisters -- drawn from personal papers of the players involved and the tabloids of the time -- illuminates the lives of two pioneering free spirits who were feminists long before the word existed.
Old Mistresses
Old Mistresses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Mistresses write by Rozsika Parker. This book was released on 2020-10-01. Old Mistresses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock's critique of Art History's sexism leads to expanded, inclusive readings of the art of the past. They demonstrate how the changing historical social realities of gender relations and women artists' translation of gendered conditions into their works provide keys to novel understandings of why we might study the art of the past. They go further to show how such knowledge enables us to understand art by contemporary artists who are women and can contribute to the changing self-perception and creative work of artists today. In March 2020 Griselda Pollock was awarded the Holberg Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to research and her influence on thinking on gender, ideology, art and visual culture worldwide for over 40 years. Old Mistresses was her first major scholarly publication which has become a classic work of feminist art history.
The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) write by Philippa Gregory. This book was released on 2008-01-22. The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The daughters of a ruthlessly ambitious family, Mary and Anne Boleyn are sent to the court of Henry VIII to attract the attention of the king, who first takes Mary as his mistress, in which role she bears him an illegitimate son, and then Anne as his wife. Reprint. 250,000 first printing. (A Columbia Pictures film, written by Peter Morgan, directed by Justin Chadwick, releasing Fall 2007, starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, and others) (Historical Fiction)
