| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 415 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Appendix A1. May, her Siblings and their Children; 2. May's Maternal Relatives; 3. May's Paternal Relatives; 4. Arthur Kindersley Blair's Maternal Relatives; 5. 3rd Duke of Sutherland's Relatives; 6. Sir Albert Kaye Rollit's Relatives; Appendix B; Manuscript Sources; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This definitive biography depicts one Victorian woman's struggle to stay afloat in a rising tide of prurient scandalmongering and snobbery. Could it be that this woman's character and circumstances informed Oscar Wilde's social comedies? She was the daughter of a leading Conservative Oxford don, vilified as an arrogant fortune-hunter. Her liaison dangereuse with a Duke resulted in ostracism by Queen Victoria's cronies, as well as protracted, widely publicised legal disputes with his family. One battle put her in Holloway Gaol for six weeks. Her supporters, over time, included Disraeli, the Khe. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sutherland, Mary Caroline, Duchess of, 1848-1912.
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Sutherland, Mary Caroline, Duchess of, 1848-1912. |
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Upper class -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Upper class. |
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Great Britain. |
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Biographies.
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Women -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Women. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Layton, Catherine. Life and times of Mary, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland 1527505502 (OCoLC)1013972508 |
| ISBN |
9781527512924 (electronic book) |
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1527512924 (electronic book) |
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1527505502 |
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9781527505506 |
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