Queen Bee of Tuscany: The Redoubtable Janet Ross - Ben Downing
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"Quite simply one of the best books of the year." ―Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence, I...
Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence, I...
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2013 Uitgever: Farrar Straus And Giroux 352 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0374239711 ISBN-13: 9780374239718Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo. [Auteur: Downing, Ben] [Pagina's: 338] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Queen Bee of Tuscany: The Redoubtable Janet Ross]