Bibliograph

Defiance, the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard, Stephen Taylor

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Defiance, the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard, Stephen Taylor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-373) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Defiance

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

959875768

Responsibility statement

Stephen Taylor

Sub title

the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard

Summary

Draws on six volumes of unpublished memoirs to chronicle the life of Lady Anne Barnard, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poet and painter, who lived on her own terms and defied the conventions of her day

Table Of Contents

The black broth -- Edinburgh's coquette -- Auld Robin Grey -- The great crash -- Return to Sparta -- 'Folly, folly, but in character!' -- 'The devil in scarlet' -- Escape to France -- Royal go-between -- The weathercock -- A captive in Paris -- 'A blackguard lover' -- A cape of hope -- A while in paradise -- Paradise lost -- The court of Lilliput -- Home and away -- Alone -- A 'protegee of a darker complexion' -- Legacies

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