The Last Gentleman
Book Details
| Title: | The Last Gentleman | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1960 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Random House, Inc. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, historical, New England, U.S.A., American Revolution | ||||||||||
| Description: | A story of frustrated love, conflicting loyalty, and high patriotic passion is this novel set in the New Hampshire colony at the time of the Boston Tea Party. The "last gentleman", Governor John Wentworth, is in conflict with his fellows in his loyalty to the king. And equally intense is the conflict his spoilt wife faces between her duties as wife and mother-to-be and her interest in numerous other men. Subsidiary characters, also torn by clashing desires, give dramatic texture to this vivid portrayal of a crucial and colorful period in American history. Shirley Barker provides the student of the American past with a romantic vehicle by which much that is factual can be learned.--Kirkus Review. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 387 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 240  |
Author Bio for Barker, Shirley
Shirley Frances Barker (April 4, 1911—November 18, 1965) was an American author, poet, and librarian.
Barker was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, a descendant of early settlers of Massachusetts. She attended the University of New Hampshire, graduating with a B.A. in 1934 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While still an undergraduate, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition with her poetry collection The Dark Hills Under (1933). It was published with a foreword by Stephen Vincent Benet and was well reviewed.
One of the judges had detected some literary affinities between her work and that of Robert Frost, so UNH President Edward M. Lewis asked Barker to send a copy of the collection to Frost, Lewis' friend and correspondent. Frost was enraged by what he perceived as anti-Puritan and anti-theistic sentiments in Barker's poetry and bizarrely insisted that Barker was the illegitimate descendent of a person described in her poem "Portrait". In what his...
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