The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley

From the author of Britons, the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism, war, exploration, migration, growing maritime reach, and new ideas. Linda Colley's new book breaks the boundaries between biography, family stories and global history.

'This is a remarkable book, both for its contents and because it is a new species of biography…Linda Colley has written a full-blown economic romance with an extraordinary range…bringing all the resources of her skills as a historian
and researcher to her storyIt is a major achievement and an enthralling narrative.’ Guardian

‘Compelling…exhilarating…as a work of big history illustrated with brilliant minatures it is a triumph.’ Sunday Times

'Stimulating and impressive…this is a remarkable life.' Financial Times

‘This excellent biography reads like an eighteenth century picaresque novel'. Daily Telegraph

Observer; 'A brilliant illumination of women's lives in Britain during its first imperial century… Colley liberates the humanity of Elizabeth's story and makes it sing for the modern reader'.

‘A minor miracle of biographical reconstruction…a fine historian.’ Sunday Telegraph

One of the most distinguished, incisive and original British historians at work today, Linda Colley has taught and written on both sides of the Atlantic. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. A Fellow of the British Academy, her previous books include: ‘In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760’, ‘Namier’, ‘Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837’, which won the Wolfson Prize, and ‘Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850’. In addition, she writes regularly for the Guardian, the New York Review of Books, and The Nation, has served on the Board of the British Library, and has delivered lectures and seminars for Amnesty International, the British Council, the European Union, the Nehru Foundation, the US State Department, and 10 Downing Street.

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ISBN 13	9780007192199
ISBN 10	0007192193
Title	The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
Author	Linda Colley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2008-05-19
Number of pages	288
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