Daisy Hay

Broschiertes Buch

Mr and Mrs Disraeli

Beschreibung

Drawing on the couple's love letters and Mary Anne's own formidable archives, Daisy Hay reveals the heady mix of romance and power that fuelled their influence - and chronicles how the Disraelis crafted their unconventional marriage into an enduring love story.

Autor

Daisy Hay is an award-winning biographer whose previous work includes Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives and Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance. She began her writing career as a doctoral student and then a Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge before moving to Oxford where she held the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St Antony's College and a Visiting Scholarship at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College. She has also held a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard. In 2016 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust and in 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is currently Associate Professor in English Literature and Life Writing at the University of Exeter and lives in Devon with her family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780099597445
• ISBN-10: 0099597446
• Artikelnr.: 43804815