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1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Summary |
The Marquess of Queensberry is perhaps as famous for destroying 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, following a series of events inspired by Wilde's romantic interest in his son, remains one of history's great tragedies. However, Linda Stratman's biography of the marquess, also known as John Sholto Douglas paints a far more complex picture by drawing on new sources and unpublished letters. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-303) and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Queensberry Family Trees -- Introduction: The Card -- CHAPTER 1. Son and Heir -- CHAPTER 2. The Queensberry Inheritance -- CHAPTER 3. The Young Gentleman -- CHAPTER 4. Night on a Mountain -- CHAPTER 5. 'He Thought He Loved' -- CHAPTER 6. The Game and Sporting Lord -- CHAPTER 7. Original Notions -- CHAPTER 8. Judged by his Peers -- CHAPTER 9. An Undercurrent of Eccentricity -- CHAPTER 10. Full of Woes -- CHAPTER 11. Four Sons and a Daughter -- CHAPTER 12. The Antipathy of Similars -- CHAPTER 13. A Serious Slight -- CHAPTER 14. Wounded Feelings -- CHAPTER 15. Catastrophe -- CHAPTER 16. A Family Divided -- CHAPTER 17. The Peer and the Poet -- CHAPTER 18. In the Dock -- CHAPTER 19. The Price of Victory -- CHAPTER 20. 'Where Stars shall ever shed their Light' -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, Marquis of, 1844-1900.
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Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, Marquis of, 1844-1900. |
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. |
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Nobility -- Scotland -- Biography.
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Nobility. |
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Scotland. |
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Biographies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Stratmann, Linda. Marquess of Queensberry. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2013 9780300173802 |
| ISBN |
9780300194838 (electronic book) |
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0300194838 (electronic book) |
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0300173806 |
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9780300173802 |
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9781299483477 (MyiLibrary) |
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129948347X (MyiLibrary) |
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9780300173802 (hardback) |
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