Passion for Government

Auteur: Harris, Frances (A Curator of the Manuscript Collections, A Curator of the Manuscript Collections, British Library, London)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
This is a highly readable account of a woman at the centre of power, whose life spanned the traumatic period from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole. Born in 1660, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough succeeded during the course of her long life in overcoming many of the contemporary constraints on her sex to become one of the most influential, as well as the most loved and hated, of Augustan women.
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This is a highly readable account of a woman at the centre of power, whose life spanned the traumatic period from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole. Born in 1660, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough succeeded during the course of her long life in overcoming many of the contemporary constraints on her sex to become one of the most influential, as well as the most loved and hated, of Augustan women.
ISBN / EAN 9780198202240
Auteur Harris, Frances (A Curator of the Manuscript Collections, A Curator of the Manuscript Collections, British Library, London)
Editeur Oxford University Press