Daughters Of Ireland by Janet Todd (2004, Hardcover)
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They
were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that
controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth
century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and
Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates and
a vast fortune, Lord and Lady Kingsborough appeared to be blessed with
everything but marital love—which only made the scandal that tore
through their family more shocking. In 1798, at the height of a
rebellion that was setting Ireland ablaze, Robert King was tried for
the murder of his wife's cousin—a crime born of passion that proved to
have extraordinary political implications. In her brilliant new book,
Janet Todd unfolds the fascinating story of how this powerful
Anglo-Irish family became entwined with the downfall not only of their
class, but of their very way of life.
Like Amanda Foreman's bestselling Georgiana, Daughters of Ireland brings
to life the world of a glittering elite in an age of international
revolution. When her daughters, Margaret and Mary, were at their most
impressionable, Lady Kingsborough hired the firebrand feminist Mary
Wollstonecraft to be their governess, little realizing how radically
this would alter both girls' beliefs and characters. The tall, striking
Margaret went on to provide crucial support to the United Irishmen in
the days leading up to the Rebellion of 1798, while soft, pleasing Mary
indulged in an illicit, and all but incestuous love affair that
precipitated multiple tragedies.
As the Kingsboroughs
imploded, the most powerful and colorful figures of the day were swept
up in their drama—the dashing aristocrat turned revolutionary Lord
Edward Fitzgerald; the liberal, cultivated Countess of Moira, a
terrible snob despite her support of Irish revolutionaires; the
notorious philanderer Colonel George King, whose sexual debauchery was
matched only by his appalling cruelty; Britain's cold calculating prime
minister William Pitt and its mad ruler King George III.
With irresistible narrative drive and richly intimate historic detail, Daughtersof Ireland an absolutely spellbinding work of history, biography, passion, and rebellion.
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