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Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

History

Lucy Moore

Europe

HarperPress

The bestselling author of 'Maharanis' recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history. Germaine de Stael was an intellectual and an aristocrat, equally obsessed by politics and love affairs, who is said to have helped write the 1791 Constitution. Her fellow salonniere, Mme Roland, was a bourgeois housewife who became a fervent and influential revolutionary, until Robespierre's regime sent her to the guillotine. While female intellectuals sipped wine in their salons, their working class counterparts patrolled the streets of Paris with pistols in their belts. Theroigne de Mericourt was an ill-treated mistress when she fell in love with revolutionary ideals and became an ardent anti-royalist until a mob beating by 'sans-culottes' ended her activism. The mob in question was made up of members of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, whose founder, Pauline Leon, agitated for women's rights. After the sans-culottes came the 'sans-chemises' -- the glamorous (often skimpily clad) merveilleuses. Decadent Theresia Tallien combined sexual license with the secular amorality of the new Republic and reportedly helped engineer Robespierre's downfall. Her only rival for beauty was Juliette Recamier, whose elegance made her salons the most sought-after in Paris. When she refused Napoleon's advances she was exiled from the city until his fall. Writing with vigour and passion, Lucy Moore reanimates these witty salonnieres, fervent citoyennes and glittering merveilleuses to illuminate the brief, hopeful period in which the Revolution seemed to offer them the freedom they craved -- and the ways in which it failed.

Harper-perennial

Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard were criminals as famous in their time as Dick Turpin.  They thrived in the criminal underworld of the eighteenth century.   From Gay’s ‘Beggars’ Opera’ and Hogarth’s ‘Industry and Idleness’ to the 1969 film ‘Where’s Jack’ the exploits of Jack Sheppard, burglar and escapologist extraordinaire, and Jonathan Wild, a gang boss who for twelve years convinced the Establishment of his probity, have lived in song, drama and story for almost three centuries.   Now Lucy Moore takes us deep into their world — the gaudy, bawdy, rowdy and dangerous London underworld of the early eighteenth century — and shows how in that violent yet oddly intimate society two very different criminals, who brought about each other’s downfall, could in the process achieve immortality in the popular imagination.   ‘Lucy Moore’s account...vividly re-creates the turbulent London underworld of the 1720s, and reminds us that crime never really changes’ – Stella Tillyard, Mail on Sunday   ‘Fascinating...A treasure-house of intriguing information’ – Daily Mail   ‘She handles her material with aplomb, juxtaposing two interconnected lives, and dovetailing in contextual socio-historical entr’actes; on crime and punishment, homosexuality, prostitution, madness and medicine, finance, politics and class, to name but a few – Spectator   ‘Lucy Moore leads the reader through the thieves’ dens of Georgian London, portraying the underworld with panache and bringing its hero-villains once more back to life’ – Roy Porter, author of London: A Social History   Lucy Moore was born in 1970. She was brought up and educated in Britain and the United States before reading history at Edinburgh University. She lives in London.   Endeavour Press is the UK’s leading independent publisher of digital books.

The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Lord Hervey was one of the most controversial figures of the Georgian age. The consummate courtier - strikingly handsome, elegant and witty - he was both the favourite of the Queen and right-hand man to Walpole. Painted by Hogarth, satirized by Fielding and Pope, and confidant of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hervey counted among his friends and enemies some of the most brilliant men and women of the age. Yet for all his hard-won public fame, there was a scandalous private side to Hervey. He was certainly a rake (rumour had it that he shared a mistress with the Prince of Wales), but such behaviour was quite normal among the 18th-century aristocracy. Less usual, however, was his ten-year affair with another man. From the outset, Hervey was fascinated by Stephen Fox. His engaging, delightfully witty letters reveal the depth of their passion for one another, and the lengths to which they were driven in order to escape detection. Finally, theirs became an "open secret", one of many factors that was to contribute to Hervey's downfall. In this biography, Lucy Moore brings to life an entire age, with its shimmering artifice and its poisonous deceit, its highly wrought melodrama and its grand passions.

Amphibious thing: The life of Lord Hervey

Biographies & Memoirs

Viking Adult

1991 Viking trade paperback, Lucy Moore (Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties). This is the real story of women strong enough to both embrace and defy their traditions. The transition of India's female royalty from fairy-tale queens to powerful activists is examined as the colonial society merges into Asia's largest democracy. The author focuses on three ancient families, the Gaekwads, Narayans and Jaipurs, who ruled over separate Indian states endowed under British colonial rule as the 19th century is closing. - Amazon

Maharanis

Asia

VIKING

Georgian London, bulging with riches from its overseas colonies, was the epitome of elegance & refinement -- & a city of appalling depravity, decadence, & filth. Crime thrived everywhere, from pickpockets & prostitutes to murderous highwaymen. This is the story of a city on the verge of greatness, & of its two greatest criminals: Jonathan Wild, thief extraordinaire, & Jack Sheppard, gambler & whoremonger. As they reached folk-hero status, London was forced to check their escapades, no small task in a city overrun with vicious acts of horrific magnitude. Lucy Moore's riveting account of crime & punishment in 18th-century London paints a vivid portrait of an era, a place, & characters confounding the modern imagination. Illustrations.

Thieves' Opera: The Riveting True Story of 18th-Century London's Most Notorious & Active Criminals

Diane Pub Co.

Affordable and quick-to-read resource Complements the Messy Church DVD Structured in bite-sized sections covering the different essentials of starting a Messy Church Includes checklists, milestones, questions to ask a Messy Church you're visiting and 'Things we wish we'd known'

Starting Your Messy Church: A Beginner's Guide for Churches. by Lucy Moore, Jane Leadbetter

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Bible Reading Fellowship

Messy Crafts: A Craft-Based Journal for Messy Church Members

Messy Church

Messy Christmas: 3 Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Craft Ideas for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

Messy Church 3: Fifteen sessions for exploring the Christian life with families

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Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

Amphibious thing: The life of Lord Hervey

Maharanis

Thieves' Opera: The Riveting True Story of 18th-Century London's Most Notorious & Active Criminals

Starting Your Messy Church: A Beginner's Guide for Churches. by Lucy Moore, Jane Leadbetter

Messy Crafts: A Craft-Based Journal for Messy Church Members

Messy Christmas: 3 Complete Sessions and a Treasure Trove of Craft Ideas for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

Messy Church 3: Fifteen sessions for exploring the Christian life with families