De geheime liefde van een getrouwde Engelse vrouw voor een tien jaar jongere, getrouwde medisch student leidt in 1858 tot het eerste Britse echtscheidingsproces.

The archetypal rebel artist and bohemian, the painter Augustus John (1878-1961) broke free from a stifling Welsh provincial background to become as famous for his flamboyant and unruly life as for his brilliant portraiture. When the John papers became available to scholars in the 1980s, startling new information was uncovered, leading Michael Holroyd to revise his celebrated life of the artist. The result is a freshly insightful revised version of one of the definitive modern English biographies. In this new version, Holroyd recounts the complete story of John and his circle. It is a tale of three countries - Wales, England, and France - and three formidable women who helped to shape his life: his tragic wife, Ida, mother of five; his muse and model, the famous Dorelia; and his mysterious sister Gwen, an artist of at least equal stature who was also Rodin's mistress.

Biografie van de Nederlandse schilder (1853-1890).

Maddox presents a richly detailed and startlingly new portrait of D. H. Lawrence: not the bearded prophet with the baleful eye, not the sickly and self-absorbed sexual outlaw, but a vulnerable, sensitive Lawrence, a hilarious mimic, a lover of nature, an inspired teacher, a brilliant journalist, an ecological visionary, and above all - as he saw himself - a married man. The prize-winning author of Nora (Mrs. James Joyce) examines Lawrence's perplexing, restless life through the greatest contradiction in it - his marriage to Frieda, a woman even more defiant of conventional morality than he was. Theirs was a mismatch made in heaven, a marriage with infidelities on both sides, verbal taunts and physical abuse, separations, and the strains of Lawrence's long struggle with tuberculosis. Yet her determined influence on his life and work cannot be overestimated, and they remained together until his bitter, tragic death.

Biografie van de beroemde Italiaanse natuur- en sterrenkundige (1564-1642), waarin opgenomen de briefwisseling tussen Galilei en zijn dochter Virginia (1600-1634).

Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters and documents and first-ever interviews with Celine's widow, Frederic Vitoux brilliantly weaves together all the available information on Celine into an extraordinary portrait of Celine's temptuous life and times. Photographs.

"Bernhard. Een verborgen geschiedenis" is een historische reconstructie van het eerste deel van zijn leven. Ze baande zich een weg door alle rookgordijnen die in de loop van de tijd rond Bernhard zijn opgetrokken en reisde door de geschiedenis van Europa, op zoek naar de verloren wereld waaruit hij voortkwam en naar de jongen die hij ooit was.

This book traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her days with the Denishawn Company (among fellos students like Martha Graham) to her creative partnership with Charles Weidman to her tenure as artistic director of protége José Limon's dance company. Siegel`s reconsideration and description of Humphrey's dances, including many that are no longer performed, sheds important light on this pathbreaking dancer/choreographer.

Verzameling eerder in Intermediair verschenen artikelen over een aantal Nederlandse geleerden op verschillend natuurwetenschappelijk gebied uit de laatste vijf eeuwen

The 3-Minute series offers the essence of the world’s most important figures with all the padding removed. It divides up their lives into 60 three-minute chunks, each presented as an easily digestible visual snack. Divided into three thematic sections on Life, Works, and Influence—each containing an hour’s worth of fascinating facts—the 3-Minute series is a whole new style of biography. So, who do you get to follow Einstein, the first of our 3-Minute wonders? Who else could it be but Stephen Hawking, the world’s best-known living theoretical physicist, who celebrates his 70th birthday in January 2012. Professor Hawking is one of the great geniuses of our time, but how much do you really know about him and his work. He not only explores the frontiers of space-time, but takes the trouble to come back and try to explain it to us non-science brains down here (A Brief History of Time, 1988). His intellect and enthusiasm undimmed by the motor neurone disease that hampers his body, his work on gravitational singularities (black holes), the nature of time, and the attempt to reconcile quantum mechanics with Einstein’s general relativity is genuinely brain-bending. We are proud that we have condensed it into 3 minute chunks. ​

Hij is de kern van de kleurrijke Heineken-geschiedenis, maar tegelijkertijd een grijze vlek: Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841-1893). Stichter van het gelijknamige bierimperium, grootvader van Freddy Heineken en drijvende kracht achter de economische en culturele wederopbloei van Amsterdam, die bekendstaat als de Tweede Gouden Eeuw. Toch is er maar weinig over hem bekend. Wie was deze man? En waarom werd hij bijna tot de vergetelheid veroordeeld? Annejet van der Zijl kreeg toegang tot de familiearchieven en reconstrueerde het inspirerende en uiteindelijk ook dramatische levensverhaal van een van de grootste industriëlen in de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Zij ontdekte een negentiende-eeuwse success story vol lef, daadkracht en passie, maar ook de schaduwzijde van al die voorspoed: afgunst, chantagepogingen en schandaal.

Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, "To My Dear and Loving Husband," among others, and through John Berryman's "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet." With her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, she became the first published poet, male or female, of the New World. Many New England towns were founded and settled by Anne Bradstreet's family or their close associates--characters who appear in these pages.

Beknopte biografie van de Nederlandse humanist en publicist (1469-1536).

As a writer who has been quoted as saying she writes to save her life- that is she couldn't write, she would be a revolutionary- Antiguan novelist Jamaica Kincaid translates this passion into searing, exhilarating prose. Her weaving of history, autobiography, fiction, and polemic has won her a large readership. In this first book-length study of her work, Moira Ferguson examines all of Kincaid's writing up to 1992, focusing especially o their entwinement of personal and political identity. In doing so, she draws a parallel between the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in Kincaid's fiction and the more political relationship of the colonizer and the colonized. Ferguson calls this effect the "doubled mother"- a conception of motherhood as both colonial and biological.

Essay over leven en werk van de Britse schrijver (1940-1989).