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A passion for government : the life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough / Frances Harris.
LIBRA DA462.M4 H37 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Frances.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744.
- Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill.
- Great Britain--History--Anne, 1702-1714--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1714-1760.
- Great Britain--Court and courtiers--Biography.
- Courts and courtiers.
- Favorites, Royal--Great Britain--Biography.
- Favorites, Royal.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 421 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was a woman with a "passion for government": a compulsion to wield power not only in her own family but in public affairs as well. The first complete scholarly biography of the Duchess, this book makes full use of recently available manuscript sources to tell the colorful story of a woman at the center of power, whose life spanned more than eighty years from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole. Harris sets Sarah's life and personal relationships in the context of her time, drawing a vivid portrait of a woman whose character and life are as fascinating and contentious today as they were to her contemporaries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [404]-411) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198202245 :
- OCLC:
- 23016181
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