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Lewis Melville (1874–1932)

Auteur de Great English Short Stories

35 oeuvres 114 utilisateurs 4 critiques

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Œuvres de Lewis Melville

Great English Short Stories (1930) — Directeur de publication — 20 exemplaires
Trial of the Duchess of Kingston (1927) 9 exemplaires
Regency ladies (1926) 8 exemplaires
Nell Gwyn, the story of her life (2016) 6 exemplaires
The Thackeray country (1911) 4 exemplaires
Some Aspects of Thackeray (1911) 4 exemplaires
Great French Short Stories — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires

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Nom légal
Benjamin, Lewis S.
Date de naissance
1874
Date de décès
1932
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieux de résidence
London, England, UK
Germany
Professions
actor
author

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Portraits of the most beautiful women at Court (11 portraits ) by Sir Lely and hung in the Queen's bedchamber at Windsor Castle.
 
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UniversalCostumeDept | 2 autres critiques | May 8, 2013 |
The Windsor Beauties: Ladies of the Court of Charles II is a recent reprint of Lewis Melville’s classic history of the court of the last Stuart king, first published in 1928. The book takes as its basis a series of portraits painted by Peter Levy in the late seventeenth century. Known collectively as “The Windsor Beauties,” the ladies portrayed in these portraits were all ladies of the court, from Anne, Duchess of York to several of the Queen’s maids of honor. Followers of the English monarchy will recognize many of the women’s maiden names; the series includes, among others, a Villiers, a Hamilton, and a Wriothesley. The book also includes a well-defined black and white reproduction of each portrait.

Melville, however, goes beyond merely reproducing each painting and reciting the details of its creation. He also details the world in which these women lived, the reputations under which they thrived (or suffered), and the contemporary views of them held by their peers and others. For instance, Melville’s two chapters devoted to Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland (whose portrait graces the cover of the book) contain several excerpts from the diary of Samuel Pepys regarding her life and doings. While it’s nearly impossible to disentangle fact from gossip, especially four hundred years after the fact, these vignettes provide a look into the lives of the ladies Levy so brilliantly portrayed in the paintings commissioned by the Duchess of York. The Windsor Beauties is a valuable source for anyone interested in post-Civil War painting, portraiture, or the court of Charles II.

The Windsor Beauties: Ladies of the Court of Charles II, by Lewis Melville. Revised Edition 2005, 1-932690-13-1. 222 pages hardbound.
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danialexis | 2 autres critiques | Aug 25, 2011 |
A very wide ranging anthology, from Barnabe Riche's version of Apolonius all the way to Aldous Huxley.
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antiquary | Aug 24, 2011 |
Grace, elegance, sophistication, refinement and beauty is what we imagine when we think of women of royalty. Anne, Duchess of York, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, Elizabeth, Countess de Grammont, and Henrietta, Countess of Rochester are just a few of the women that are depicted in this book. Each held her own grace in society, but more so each had her own story, some of polished lives, others of dysfunction and scandal.

I found this book an interesting read because I knew very little, or nothing, of the ladies. I smiled often as I read the accounts of their lives and realized these women were no different from the women of our society today, especially those of the royal families. Not much has changed.… (plus d'informations)
 
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iwatson | 2 autres critiques | Nov 20, 2010 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
35
Membres
114
Popularité
#171,985
Évaluation
4.2
Critiques
4
ISBN
21

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