ENGLISH

The Whig World

By Leslie Mitchell

Book information

Publisher
Hambledon & London
Year
2005
ISBN
1852854561, 9781852854560
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12709563 bytes)
Pages
256\230
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-01-04 02:43:32
Great Britain;England;Scotland;Wales;Europe;Histor

Description

The Whigs were one of the two great English political parties in the 150 years after 1700, far more often in office than their arch-rivals the Tories. With members such as Charles James Fox, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and Lord Byron, its gambling, loose-living, drinking and wit were notorious. This book paints a portrait, of which politics forms only a small part, of an extraordinary group of men and women whose power, taste and intellect dominated the centre of what had become the greatest power in the world. Cosmopolitan, urban, sophisticated, sceptical and promiscuous, the Whigs numbered far more brilliant conversationalists and controversialists amongst their number than the Bloomsbury Group.

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