Bøger om År 1850 til 1859

" Vers la fin de l¿année 1612, par une froide matinée de décembre, un jeune homme dont le vêtement était de très- mince apparence, se promenait devant la porte d¿une mai- son située rue des Grands-Augustins, à Paris. Après avoir assez long-temps marché dans cette rue avec l¿irrésolution d¿un amant qui n¿ose se présenter chez sa première maîtresse, quelque facile qüelle soit, il finit par franchir le seuil de cette porte, et demanda si maître François PORBUS était en son logis. Sur la réponse affirmative que lui fit une vieille femme occupée à balayer une salle basse, le jeune homme monta lentement les degrés, et s¿arrêta de marche en marche, comme quelque courtisan de fraîche date, inquiet de l¿accueil que le roi va lui faire. Quand il parvint en haut de la vis, il demeura pendant un moment sur le palier, incertain s¿il prendrait le heurtoir grotesque qui ornait la porte de l¿atelier où travaillait sans doute le peintre de Henri IV délaissé pour Rubens par Marie de Médicis. Le jeune homme éprouvait cette sensation profonde qui a dû faire vibrer le c¿ur des grands artistes quand, au fort de la jeunesse et de leur amour pour l¿art, ils ont abordé un homme de génie ou quelque chef-d¿¿uvre. Il existe dans tous les sentiments humains une fleur primitive, engendrée par un noble enthousiasme qui va toujours faiblissant jusqüà ce que le bonheur ne soit plus qüun souvenir et la gloire un mensonge. Parmi ces émotions fragiles, rien ne ressemble à l¿amour comme la jeune passion d¿un artiste commençant le délicieux supplice de sa destinée de gloire et de malheur, passion pleine d¿audace et de timidité, de croyances vagues et de découragements certains....."

The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women's texts on war.Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain's fin de sicle, this book examines works by notable writers - including Rosario de Acua, Blanca de los Rios, Concepcin Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos - as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain's colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women's representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works' overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.

The book includes biographical tributes to many of the men who were killed in action, gives details of the places where they are commemorated, and provides biographies with all the up-to-date information concerning the twenty Victoria Cross recipients.

An Indwelling Voice presents a framework for understanding how, despite linguistic and philosophical barriers, sincere voices are written and read in poetry.

'Compelling and utterly absorbing... an artfully crafted debut' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, author of PANDORA'A gripping Gothic tale of grief and ambition, passion and intrigue' JESS KIDD, author of THE NIGHT SHIP'A wonderful book; dark, passionate, multi-layered' JOANNE HARRIS, author of CHOCOLAT'A fantastic read: I felt everything about Mary, her simmering anger and her intellectual delight' FREYA MARSKE, author of THE LAST BINDING trilogy'Witty, dark and sharp as a scalpel...brilliantly captures what it's like to be a woman in a man's world' LIZZIE POOK, author of MOONLIGHT AND THE PEARLER'S DAUGHTER________Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn't know why or how...The 1850s is a time of discovery and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary, with a sharp mind and a sharper tongue, is keen to make her name in this world of science, alongside her geologist husband Henry, but without wealth and connections, their options are limited.But when Mary discovers some old family papers that allude to the shocking truth behind her great-uncle's past, she thinks she may have found the key to securing their future... Their quest takes them to the wilds of Scotland, to Henry's intriguing but reclusive sister Maisie, and to a deadly chase with a rival who is out to steal their secret...

A Woman’s Empire sheds light on how women’s voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia’s late imperial expansion into Asia.

Den sande historie om kejserinde Elisabeth (Sissi) og kejser Franz Josef 1. af Østrig og deres store kærlighed. 1853. Den unge og lidenskabelige hertuginde Elisabeth, kaldet Sissi af sine nærmeste, har afvist endnu en bejler. Hun er romantisk og stædig og vil udelukkende giftes, hvis det er ægte kærlighed. Samtidig gør familien sig klar til at rejse til Bad Ischl, hvor Elisabeths pligtopfyldende storesøster, Helene, skal forloves med den unge kejser Franz den 1. af Østrig. Alt skal forløbe glat ved besøget, og hvis ikke Elisabeth opfører sig passende, truer hendes mor med at sende hende i kloster eller på sindssygeanstalt.Skæbnen vil dog, at Elisabeth, mindst som hun venter det – barfodet i slotsparkens fugtige græs og med en såret fugl i hænderne – møder sit livs kærlighed. Det er kærlighed ved første blik – og kærligheden er gengældt. Det er dog ét uoverstigeligt problem – manden, hun har forelsket sig i, er hendes søsters tilkommende, kejser Franz den 1. Vil det lykkes for det unge par at finde sammen på trods af omgivelsernes ubrydelige planer og tidens rigide konventioner?