UID:
edocfu_9960962655602883
Format:
1 online resource (351 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-299-48347-X
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0-300-19483-8
Content:
The Marquess of Queensberry is as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. The trial and two-year imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, lover of Queensberry's son, Lord Alfred Douglas, remains one of literary history's great tragedies. However, Linda Stratmann's riveting biography of the Marquess paints a far more complex picture by drawing on new sources and unpublished letters. Throughout his life, Queensberry was emotionally damaged by a series of tragedies, and the events of the Wilde affair-told for the first time from the Marquess's perspective-were directly linked to Queensberry's personal crises. Through the retelling of pivotal events from Queensberry's life-the death of his brother on the Matterhorn and his fruitless search for the body; the suicides of his father, brother, and eldest son-the book reveals a well-meaning man often stricken with a grief he found hard to express, who deserves our compassion.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Author's Note --
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Acknowledgements --
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Queensberry Family Trees --
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Introduction: The Card --
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CHAPTER 1. Son and Heir --
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CHAPTER 2. The Queensberry Inheritance --
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CHAPTER 3. The Young Gentleman --
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CHAPTER 4. Night on a Mountain --
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CHAPTER 5. 'He Thought He Loved' --
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CHAPTER 6. The Game and Sporting Lord --
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CHAPTER 7. Original Notions --
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CHAPTER 8. Judged by his Peers --
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CHAPTER 9. An Undercurrent of Eccentricity --
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CHAPTER 10. Full of Woes --
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CHAPTER 11. Four Sons and a Daughter --
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CHAPTER 12. The Antipathy of Similars --
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CHAPTER 13. A Serious Slight --
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CHAPTER 14. Wounded Feelings --
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CHAPTER 15. Catastrophe --
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CHAPTER 16. A Family Divided --
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CHAPTER 17. The Peer and the Poet --
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CHAPTER 18. In the Dock --
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CHAPTER 19. The Price of Victory --
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CHAPTER 20. 'Where Stars shall ever shed their Light' --
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Epilogue --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-17380-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300194838
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