9780749003418 - Sheridans Nightingale: The Story of Elizabeth Linley (Allison & Busby biography) von Chedzoy, Alan (12 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Como nuevo. : Sheridan's Nightingale: The Story of Elizabeth Linley es una biografía escrita por Alan Chedzoy que narra la vida de Elizabeth Linley, una famosa soprano del siglo XVIII. El libro detalla su elopement y matrimonio con Richard Sheridan, un dramaturgo desconocido en ese momento, así como su posterior relación con Lord Edward Fitzgerald. La biografía explora los desafíos que enfrentó Linley como artista y mujer en una sociedad dominada por hombres, y su lucha por encontrar la felicidad y la independencia. EAN: 9780749003418 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Sheridan's Nightingale Autor: Alan Chedzoy Editorial: Allison & Busby Idioma: en Páginas: 322 Formato: tapa blanda.

Zustand: Fine. 1st edition. Paperback, F. xiv+322pp, 4pp b/w plates, index, a fine copy. Biography of the soprano Elizabeth Linley [ 1754 - 1792 ] who eloped with the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan to France - under the guise of escaping an older suitor. Sheridan was supposed to be escorting her to a convent, ijnstead the two married & sparked controversy in England as both were under the then age for marriage consent. 600 grams.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Reprint; First Printing. First printing of paperback edition. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. ; 322 pages; The young Elizabeth Linley was the finest soprano of her day, capable of earning the vast sum of ?1,000 a year from her singing. The destitute Richard Sheridan, not yet the famous playwright, married her and then wouldn't allow his wife to pursue her career, as it was unseemly for the wife of a gentleman to appear on the stage. A rich, moving portrait of a woman, first admired then worshipped, but ultimately imprisoned by her beauty, talent and the prevailing mores of the time. Trade PB.

First paperback edition 1998. xii+322 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Very good. A biography of Elizabeth Linley. The elopement and marriage of Elizabeth Linley and Richard Sheridan was the most talked about event of the 18th century. She, at 18, was the most successful singer of the day. He, a destitute, unknown playwright whose "School for Scandal" and "The Rivals" were yet to come. Despite being able to earn over a thousand pounds a year, Sheridan would not let her appear on stage. Unfulfilled and saddened by Sheridan's open infidelities, Eliza fell in love with Irish Patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald. She enjoyed only brief happiness, dying of consumption shortly after giving birth to his daughter.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 322 pages. faded spine & cover, minor wear, sticker residue.

Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: 322pp., illustrations, acknowledgement, afterword, notes, bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. On a wild night in March 1772, a small vessel put out to sea from Kent heading for Dunkirk. Aboard was eighteen-year-old Eliza Linley, the finest soprano in England. She was fleeing from a rich, elderly but unwanted admirer. Guarding her was the young Richard Brinsley Sheridan, a feckless adventurer, desperately in love but too diffident to admit it. Their destination was a convent where Eliza would be safe. They did not reach it. Instead they embarked upon one of the most discussed marriages of the eighteenth-century.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

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