An edition of Ladies in Waiting: from the Tudors to the present day (1984)

Ladies-in-waiting

from the Tudors to the present day

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An edition of Ladies in Waiting: from the Tudors to the present day (1984)

Ladies-in-waiting

from the Tudors to the present day

1st American ed.

by

  • 8 Want to read

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Far from being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power--and many succeeded in their goals, sometimes betraying their queens in the process. A few even became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune and flaunted her hold over King Charles I. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, including the diaries of such shrewd onlookers as Lady Cowper and Fanny Burney, bestselling author Anne Somerset provides a guide to the character, profligate or pious, of each court. This lively combination of entertaining anecdote and searching analysis is social history at its most colorful.

"...provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material..."--The New York Times

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Knopf
Language
English
Pages
341

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Subjects

England, Courts and courtiers, Ladies-in-waiting, Royalty, Biography, Court and courtiers, Great Britain, Nobility, History, Geschichte (1485-1984), Hofdame, Great britain, history, modern period, 1485-, Great britain, court and courtiers

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Great Britain, England, France

Times

Modern period, 1485-
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Cover of: Ladies in Waiting
Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day
August 28, 2005, Phoenix Press, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Paperback in English
Cover of: Ladies-in-Waiting
Ladies-in-Waiting: From The Tudors to the Present Day
February 2004, Book Sales
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Ladies in Waiting
Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day
October 28, 2002, Phoenix Press, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Paperback in English - New edition
Cover of: Ladies-in-waiting
Ladies-in-waiting: from the Tudors to the present day
1984, Knopf
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Ladies-in-waiting
Ladies-in-waiting: from the Tudors to the present day
1984, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
in English
Cover of: Ladies in Waiting
Ladies in Waiting
1984, Weidenfeld, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 322-332.
Includes index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
941/.009/92, B
Library of Congress
DA308 .S66 1984

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 341 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
341

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OL3187614M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0394520009
LCCN
83048861
Library Thing
423417
Goodreads
971401

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