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Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël / by J. Christopher Herold

By:

Herold, J. Christopher [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Hamish Hamilton, 1959Description: x, 486 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

848.609

Contents:

Part I. The Neckers

The Obscure years of Monsieur Necker

The romance of Suzanne Curchod

Madame Necker's drawing room

The Trinity and the triangle

Part II. Love and politics

Marriage and emancipation

Revolution and intoxication

Love and politics

The heartbreak and the terror

Benjamin

'This miserable gypsy life'

Part III. Two tyrants

Ideology

The ideophobe defied

Weimar, Berlin and fate

The Isle of Calypso

Corinne and Adolphe

Farce, tragedy, and histrionics

The sword beats the spirit

Part IV. The Vanity of human wishes

Caliban

Defeat in victory

Not the port but the grave

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Pasong Tamo Branch Reference Section	Women’s Collection	WC 848.609 St778h 1959 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	132670d

Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-474) and index.