Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
Author(s): Stephen Taylor
Poet and musician, artist and hostess, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. High-born yet egalitarian, she travelled to France to observe the Revolution, rejected numerous suitors, and lived independently. Her curious ways attracted gossip right into her final years when she raised an illegitimate child at her home in Berkeley Square. Written with full access to her previously unseen private papers and unpublished memoirs, Defiance shows Lady Anne to be one of the unheralded chroniclers and pioneering women of her time.
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A new biography of the charismatic Georgian society hostess Lady Anne Barnard, who became defined by her defiance of convention.
Stephen Taylor grew up in South Africa, and after moving to Britain worked as a foreign correspondent for The Times in Africa, Asia and Australia. He is the author of several celebrated books on Africa, including The Mighty Nimrod and Livingstone's Tribe: A Journey from Zanzibar to the Cape. The Caliban Shore was called 'a wonderful book' by Paul Theroux and his most recent book, Storm and Conquest, was called 'a triumph ... a ripping yarn founded on original research' in the Guardian.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 0.34
- : 30 June 2017
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Stephen Taylor
- : Paperback
- : Main
- : en
- : 941.07092
- : 400