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- Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / by Uglow, Jenny,1947-author.;
"Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a vivid, fascinating life, but confessed, 'I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present' ... Lear was a man of great simplicity and charm--children adored him--yet his humor masked epilepsy, depression, and loneliness. [The author's] beautifully illustrated biography, full of the color of the age, brings us his swooping moods, passionate friendships, and restless travels"Prologue: "It's absurd..." -- I. Fledgling -- One foot off the ground -- With the girls -- "O Sussex!" -- II. Perching -- To the zoo -- Knowsley -- Tribes and species -- Make 'em laugh -- Mountains -- III. Flying -- "Rome is Rome" -- Happy as a hedgehog -- Third person -- Excursions -- Derry down Derry: Nonsense, 1846 -- "Something is about to happen" -- "Calmly, into the dice-box" -- "All that amber" -- IV. Tumbling -- The brotherhood -- Meeting the poet -- An owl in the desert -- Half a life: Corfu and Athos -- Bible lands -- A was an ass -- Home again, Rome again -- No more -- V. Circling -- "Overconstrained to folly":Nonsense, 1861 -- "Mr Lear the artist" -- "From island unto island" -- "What a charming life an artist's is!" -- "the "marriage" phantasy" -- "Gradually extinguified" -- VI. Calling -- Sail away: Cannes, 1868-1869 -- "Three groans for Corsica!" -- Degli inglesi -- Nonsense Songs and More Nonsense -- Restless in San Remo -- India -- Families -- Laughable Lyrics -- VII. Swooping -- Shocks -- The Villa Tennyson -- "As great a fool as ever I was" -- Pax vobiscum"Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Biographies.; Lear, Edward, 1812-1888.; Poets, English; Artists;
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- In these times : living in Britain through Napoleon's wars, 1793-1815 / by Uglow, Jenny,1947-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-708) and index.1. Who tells the news? -- I. STIRRING, 1789-1792 -- 2. Down with Tom Paine! -- II. ARMING, 1793-1796 -- The universal pant for glory -- Flanders and Toulon -- 5. Scarlet, shoes and guns -- 6. British tars -- 7. Trials and tribulations -- 8. Warp and weft -- 9. Money, city and country -- 10. "Are we forgotten?" -- 11. High life -- 12. Four farmers -- 13. Portsmouth deliveries -- 14. Bread -- 15. East and west -- III. WATCHING, 1797-1801 -- 16. Invasions, spies and poets -- 17. Mutinies and militia -- 18. Cash in hand -- 19. At sea and on land -- 20. The powerhouse -- 21. "Check proud Invasion's boast" -- 22. Ireland -- 23. The Nile and beyond -- 24. "The distressedness of the times" -- 25. God on our side -- 26. "Good men should now close ranks" -- 27. Denmark, Egypt, Boulogne...peace -- IV. PAUSING, 1801-1803 -- 28. France -- 29. New voices -- 30. "Always capable of doing mischief" -- 31. Albion -- V. SAILING, 1803-1808 -- 32. Into war again -- 33. "Fine strapping fellows" -- 34. Press gangs and fencibles -- 35. Panic and propaganda -- 36. "Every farthing I can get" -- 37. The business of defence -- 38. Trafalgar -- 39. All the Talents -- 40. Private lives -- 41. Abolition and after -- 42. Danes and Turks -- 43. Orders in Council -- 44. Land -- VI. FIGHTING, 1809-1815 -- 45. "Caesar is everywhere" -- 46. Scandals, Flanders and fevers -- 47. Going to the show -- 48. Burdett and press freedom -- 49. "Brookes's and Buonaparte," Cintra and Troy -- 50. Storms of trade -- 51. The coming of the sheep -- 52. Sieges and prisoners -- 53. Luddites and protests -- 54. Prince, Perceval, Portland -- 55. Three fronts -- 56. Sailors -- 57. Swagger and civilisation -- 58. "We are to have our rejoicings" -- VII. ENDINGS, 1815 and beyond -- 59. To Waterloo and St. Helena -- 60. Afterwards -- Principal events of the wars."A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian. We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers--how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century"--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; War and society; War and society;
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