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Disraeli's disciple : the scandalous life of George Smythe / Mary S. Millar.
LIBRA DA565.S865 M54 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millar, Mary S., 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strangford, George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe, Viscount, 1818-1857.
- Strangford, George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe.
- Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881--Friends and associates.
- Disraeli, Benjamin.
- Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881.
- Young England movement.
- Politicians--England--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Nobility--England--Biography.
- Nobility.
- Friends and associates.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Chronology 1818-75 xi
- Prologue: The Wild Ass's Skin 3
- 1 A Splendid Failure? 5
- 2 1400-1817: The Strangford Inheritance 14
- 3 1818-26: Cradled in Commotions 21
- 4 1826-35: George Smythe's Schooldays 32
- 5 1836-7: Herstmonceux and Cambridge 50
- 6 1837-8: Faber 63
- 7 1838-9: Pearls and Swine 76
- 8 1840: Lady Tankerville 88
- 9 1841: Heaven-Born Statesman or Devil-Born Orator 105
- 10 1841: I Am a Very Zero 118
- 11 1842: Young England 135
- 12 1843: Worrying Peel - and Reading Casanova 149
- 13 1844: Coningsby and Historic Fancies 166
- 14 1844: The Pursuit of Psyche 181
- 15 1845: The Double Game 195
- 16 1846: Falling Upstairs - and Down 206
- 17 1847: With a Tongue and a Pen of His Own 220
- 18 1848-9: Very Like Assassination 231
- 19 1850-2: Diplomatic Moves 244
- 20 1852: Something about the Duke 256
- 21 1853-5: The Stage-Box of My Soul 268
- 22 1856-7: Bed-Ridden Lovelace 284.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802090923
- OCLC:
- 62430518
- Publisher Number:
- 9780802090928
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