Accused of cowardice and of dictating the Titanic's excessive speed, Ismay was the first victim of a press hate campaign. He never recovered from the damage to his reputation and never spoke of his beloved ship, the Titanic, again. Wilson explores Ismay's desperate need to tell …
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A brilliantly original and gripping new look at the sinking of the Titanic through the prism of the life and lost honor of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner.
Frances Wilson tells the strange and fascinating story of the owner of the Titanic, J. Bruce Ismay, the man who jumped ship.
The strange and fascinating story of the owner of the Titanic, J. Bruce Ismay, the man who jumped ship.
Accused of cowardice and of dictating the Titanic's excessive speed, Ismay was the first victim of a press hate campaign. He never recovered from the damage to his reputation and never spoke of his beloved ship, the Titanic, again. Wilson explores Ismay's desperate need to tell …
Accused of cowardice and of dictating the Titanic's excessive speed, Ismay was the first victim of a press hate campaign. He never recovered from the damage to his reputation and never spoke of his beloved ship, the Titanic, again. Wilson explores Ismay's desperate need to tell …
The prelude -- Books -- Childhood and schooltime -- Schooltime (continued) -- Residence in London -- Summer vacation -- Residence at Oxford -- Retrospect: love of nature leading to love of mankind -- Home at Grasmere -- Residence in Dove Cottage and the revolution -- Residence i…
Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelg̃nger--is embedded in our culture. Modeling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the latter's cottage in Grasmere and turned it into an opium den. Here, inc…
A dynamic biography of one of the most mysterious members of Wordsworth's circle and the last of the Romantics Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. He was obsessed with Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose Lyrical Balladsprovided the script to his life, and by the idea of sudden death…
"A biography of the last of the Romantics describes his rags-to-riches life and career as a journalist, translator, essayist and opium addict who inspired generations of writers with his emotional memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, "--NoveList. De Quincey became an o…
