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Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard by Stephen Taylor (Hardback, 2016)

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Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part of it. But she was seen as an eccentric - an outsider. The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard. What defined this poet and musician, artist and hostess, was defiance of convention.

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Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part of it. The Prince of Wales counted among many friends and she was brilliant in company. But she was seen as an eccentric - an outsider.What defined this poet and musician, artist and hostess, was defiance of convention. High-born yet an egalitarian, she rejected numerous suitors, lived independently by buying and renting houses and travelled alone to observe the French Revolution. When she did marry it was to a junior army officer, 12 younger than she, and together they withdrew to Africa. Her curious ways attracted gossip right to her final years when she raised a mysterious dark-skinned child at her home in Berkeley Square.Anne Barnard's verse was celebrated by Walter Scott but she was also a brilliant and indefatigable diarist. Stephen Taylor has been given access to her private papers, tably six volumes of memoirs which have never been published and which show her to be one of the unheralded chroniclers of her time. This daring yet sensitive woman brought insights to the Georgian age that speak to the modern reader.

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PublisherFaber & Faber

ISBN-100571311113

ISBN-139780571311118

eBay Product ID (ePID)227585964

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AuthorStephen Taylor

FormatHardback

LanguageEnglish

TopicBiography: Historical, Political & Military

GenreBiography: Historical, Political & Military

Dimensions

Height240mm

Width160mm

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Place of PublicationLondon

Author BiographyStephen Taylor is a writer of biography, history and travel. He has an enduring connection with Africa, where he was born and which provided the setting for his first four books, but in recent years he has turned to people and events from the Georgian age. These themes come together in this, the first comprehensive life of Lady Anne Barnard. A former foreign correspondent for The Times in South East Asia and Australia as well as Africa, he plays the piano poorly but persistently, sings in a choir, lives in Berkshire and is married with a son, a daughter and a grandson.

Date of Publication03/11/2016

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Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom