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George and Emily Eden
- Pride, Privilege, Empire and the Whigs
Engelsk Paperback
George and Emily Eden
- Pride, Privilege, Empire and the Whigs
Engelsk Paperback

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George and Emily Eden were a devoted sibling pair. Both unmarried, they were accepted as a mildly unconventional couple by friends in the dynastically conscious governing class. George (1784-1849) entered politics as a Whig to replace his elder brother, who had been groomed for success but drowned in the Thames off Westminster one January night in 1810. Four years later George inherited his father''s peerage as 2nd Baron Auckland. In 1835 he was appointed Governor-General of India, and Emily (1797-1869), although reluctant to leave her close friend, the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, went with him. A witty and perceptive writer, who later published a distinctively voiced pair of novels, Emily chronicled the Indian period, as she did her entire adult life, in letters. Allen traces the development of her closeness to George, their interlocking private and public lives and the events that impacted on them, including the Afghan disaster of January 1842 and the mixture of blame and forbearance that George attracted at home. A poignant coda describes Emily''s final twenty years as Victorian invalid, author, and observer of the political scene.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
323
ISBN-13:
9780718897444
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0718897447
Udg. Dato:
25 jul 2024
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Oplagsdato:
25 jul 2024
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