Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël / by J. Christopher Herold
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TextPublisher: London : Hamish Hamilton, 1959Description: x, 486 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraitsContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 848.609
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Pasong Tamo Branch Reference Section | Women’s Collection | WC 848.609 St778h 1959 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 132670d |
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| WC 841.13 M334l 1964 Lays of Marie de France and other French legends | WC 843.7 Sa213m 1980 My life | WC 843.914 W265s 1981 Shades of grey | WC 848.609 St778h 1959 Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël | WC 848.91209 C694p 1978 Belles saisons : a Colette scrapbook | WC 891.863 Sa167a 1987 Ashes, ashes, all fall down | WC 920.72 R449 1975 Revelations : diaries of women |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-474) and index.
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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