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024 7 _a10.9783/9780812203165
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812203165
035 _a(DE-B1597)449183
035 _a(OCoLC)979968271
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aBIO006000
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082 0 4 _a610/.92
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRosner, Lisa
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Most Beautiful Man in Existence :
_bThe Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier /
_cLisa Rosner.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©1999
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.) :
_b15 illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tPreface: A Journal of Life --
_tCHAPTER 1. Interest or Love --
_tCHAPTER 2. Born to Misfortune --
_tCHAPTER 3. Hot from Your Studies --
_tCHAPTER 4. This Despicable Rock --
_tCHAPTER 5. The Most Beautiful Man in Existence --
_tCHAPTER 6. Tinsel of Military Reputation --
_tCHAPTER 7. Soothing Hope of Speedy Promotion --
_tCHAPTER 8. Arrived at Wealth and Dignity --
_tCHAPTER 9. Thrown on the Wide World --
_tCHAPTER 10. Appearances Are of Essential Consequence --
_tCHAPTER 11. Consecutive Chain of Corroborative Evidence --
_tCHAPTER 12. Compare What I Might Have Been with What I Am --
_tEpilogue: One Series of Hardships and Privations --
_tA Note on Sources --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _a1833, Catherine Jane Hamilton returned from India to Edinburgh to seek a divorce from her husband, the physician Alexander Lesassier. The charge was adultery, and proof for it lay in a trunk containing her husband's personal papers. Catherine won her suit without difficulty and the trunk was deposited in the library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Alexander Lesassier died in 1839 during the First Afghan War; his trunk and its contents remained untouched for the next century and a half.It has now been opened and a remarkable tale, told in remarkable detail, has spilled forth. The life of Alexander Lesassier, as expertly reconstructed by Lisa Rosner, affords startling insight into the sensibilities of an era and of the man who, in his own eyes and those of the women who adored him, was its most perfect creation.Affable and self-absorbed, engaging and ignoble Lesassier was a physician, military surgeon, and novelist, who was also a shameless opportunist, charming scoundrel, seducer, and survivor. His is the story of a failed medical man who wanted to be something different and saw himself as entitled to more than he had; someone who can always be guaranteed to make the wrong choice, and then protest that he has done well.This fascinating and deeply absorbing book offers rare insights into Georgian, Regency, and early Victorian Britain through the fortunes and misfortunes, hopes and whims, of "the most beautiful man in existence."
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)
650 4 _aAutobiography.
650 4 _aBiography.
650 4 _aCaregiving.
650 4 _aEuropean History.
650 4 _aHealth.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aMedicine.
650 4 _aMilitary Science.
650 4 _aWorld History.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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