John Kemble's Gibraltar Journal : the Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831 / Eric W. Nye, University of Wyoming, USA.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nye, Eric W., 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cambridge Apostles (Society).

British.

History.

Revolutionaries.

Spain--History--Ferdinand VII, 1813-1833.

Spain.

Revolutionaries--Spain--History--19th century.

Kemble, John M. (John Mitchell), 1807-1857.

Kemble, John M.

Cambridge Apostles (Society)--History.

British--Spain--History--19th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 425 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to dampen the fervor still felt from the French Revolution. In England the Cambridge Apostles took up the cause of the Spanish émigrés so movingly visible in London where they had sought refuge from the tyranny of Ferdinand VII and his suppression of constitutional rights. The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles has always captured our imaginations. Its blend of idealism and daring, of theory and practice, of thought and energy, seems perfectly to fulfill the principles the Apostles steadfastly espoused, a combination of faith and works. The episodes comprised in most accounts of the expedition are symbolic and filled with intrigue: secret meetings, assumed names, hidden messages, contraband, narrow escapes from the authorities, treachery, and finally a bloody execution on the beach at Málaga. A host of newly-discovered documents now enable us to re-examine one of the most intriguing events in British intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

John Kemble's Gibraltar Journal

Appendix One : The Dunedin Letter Album

Appendix Two : Thoughts on the foreign policy of England by Jacob Sternwall, London; James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1827

Appendix Three : The events surrounding the seizure of the Schooner Mary

Appendix Four : John Mitchell Kemble to Fanny Kemble : Letters in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, W.b. 596

Appendix Five : The testimony of Doña Luisa Saenz de Viniegra de Torrijos, Vida del General José María Torrijos y Uriarte (2v, Madrid : Manuel Minuesa, 1860)

Appendix Six : Málaga and after : selections from Bodleian Library MS. Eng. lett. b.4 40476.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137384461

1137384468

OCLC:

887848234

Publisher Number:

99961810925

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