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Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
Category: Biography
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
Category: Biography Memoir
In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's r ...Show more
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
Category: Biography
In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's r ...Show more
Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites by Franny Moyle
Category: Biography & Memoir
Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they outraged their contemporaries with th ...Show more
Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites by Franny Moyle
Category: Biography Memoir
In conjunction with a major series for BBC2, this work presents the scandalous saga of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love t ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner by Franny Moyle
Category: Biography
The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mothe ...Show more
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein by Franny Moyle
Category: Art and Design
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The Times 'Evokes the painter and his world as vividly as a Holbein masterpiece. Beautifully written and illustrated, this book is a must for lovers of Tudor histo ...Show more
The King's Painter: the Life of Hans Holbein, a Genius at the Heart of the Tudor Court (HB) by Franny Moyle
Category: Art and Design
The first illustrated biography of Hans Holbein, the painter who depicted some of the most powerful people of the early sixteenth century, in three decades. Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Desiderius ...Show more
Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner by Franny Moyle
Category: Art and Design
The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mothe ...Show more
TurnerThe Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner by Franny Moyle
Category: Biography
The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters J.M.W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifetime, Turner strove to liberate painting from an antiquated ...Show more
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