The Story of Charlotte Corday (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Originally published in 1870 as a portion of the author’s larger “Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of 16 pages, tells the story of late 18th century French political assassin Charlotte Corday.Sample passage:At seven o’clock in the evening she returned, and reached Marat’s ante-chamber; but the woman who waited upon him refused to admit her to the monster’s presence. Marat, however, who was in a bath in the next room, hearing the voice of a young girl, and little thinking she had come to deprive him of life, ordered that she should be shown in. Charlotte seated herself by the side of the bath. The conversation ran upon the disturbances in the department of Calvados, and Charlotte, fixing her eyes upon Marat’s countenance as if to scrutinize his most secret thoughts, pronounced the names of several of the Girondist deputies. “They shall soon be arrested,” he cried with a howl of rage, “and executed the same day.” He had scarcely uttered these words, when Charlotte’s knife was buried in his bosom.About the author:Anna Jameson (1794-1860-1932) was a British writer. Other works include “Characteristics of Women,” “Memoirs of the Early Italian Painter,” and “The Romance of Biography.”