Idols and invalids

Author:: Kemble, James, 1900-
Published:: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & co., inc., 1936.
Physical Description:: xvii,328 pages ; 23 1/2 cm

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Contents:

Byron.--Christopher Columbus.--Judge Jeffreys.--Louis XV: the Nesle sisters, Madame de Pompadour, Madame du Barry.--The Borgias: Pope Alexander VI, Cesare, Lucrezia.--Cleopatra: love and eugenics.--The medical life of Lord Nelson.--Henry VIII.--Queen Anne.--Mary queen of Scots and her tragedy.--Epicurus: or, The art of happiness.--Catherine the Great of Russia.--John Milton and his blindness.--Beau Brummell and English dandies.--Omar Khayyám.

Subject(s):

Biography
Psychology, Pathological

Note:

"First edition".

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