Hugh Trevor-Roper A hidden life

the enigma of Sir Edmund Backhouse

Verslag van het schimmige leven van deze Engelse homoseksuele edelman en sinoloog (1873-1944) in Peking

Engels | 316 pagina's | Macmillan, London [etc.] | 1976

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Hugh Trevor-Roper Princes and artists

patronage and ideology at four Habsburg courts, 1517-1633

Engels | 176 pagina's | Thames and Hudson, London | 1976

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Hugh Trevor-Roper Hermit of Peking

the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse

It all began when Hugh Trevor-Roper acquired the voluminous memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, up till then known only as a distinguished Chinese scholar who had lived quietly until his death in 1944. The memoirs depicted a very different person - a man who said that he had been 'intimate' with many nobles, from Lord Rosebery to Verlaine, and whose lovers had included the Dowager Empress of China. In fact, they were so fantastic that the author felt obliged to discover all he could about the man who...

Engels | 391 pagina's | Penguin, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1978

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