21. Vathek (Oxford World's Classics) William Beckford Title Vathek (Oxford World s Classics) beckford william William Beckford Subject16th to 18th century fiction Category Fiction General Format Paperback http://www.west-midlands-woodturners.co.uk/William-Beckford-Vathek-Oxford-Worlds

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22. William Beckford William Beckford (17601844). Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick. Straightremnant of the spiry birchen bough, That over the streamlet wont http://www.sonnets.org/beckford.htm

William Beckford (1760-1844) Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick Straight remnant of the spiry birchen bough, That over the streamlet wont perchance to quake Thy many twinkling leaves and, bending low, Beheld thy white rind dancing on the lake How doth thy present state, poor stick! awake My pathosfor, alas! even stripped as thou May be my beating breast, if ever forsake Philisto this poor heart; and break his vow. So musing on, I fare with many a sigh And meditating then on times long past, To thee, lorn pole! I look with tearful eye, As all beside the floor-soiled pail thou art cast; And my sad thoughts, while I behold thee twirled, Turn on the twistings of this troublous world.

23. Vathek (Creation Classics) William Beckford Title Vathek (Creation Classics) beckford william William BeckfordSubject Classics Category Fiction General Format Paperback http://www.hilarycorbett.co.uk/William-Beckford-Vathek-Creation-Classics-278-927

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24. The Beckford Project The beckford Project. This webpage is dedicated to william beckford (1760-1844),the English novelist, bibliophile, traveller, collector, and builder. http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/beck.htm

25. Beckford, William (1760-1844) beckford, william. writer, connoisseur, collector. greatbritain. 1760- 2 May 1844, Bath Grave location Bath, Avon Walcot Cemetery. http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p002946.htm

Beckford, William writer, connoisseur, collector great-britain 1760 - 2 May 1844, Bath Grave location: Bath, Avon: Walcot Cemetery Son of the famous Lord Mayor of London of the same name, whose fortune from the West-Indies he inherited. In 1777 he travelled to Switzerland and Italy, where he stayed with Sir William Hamilton and Lady Catherine Hamilton. The latter became a close friend and adviser. Back in London he was romantically involved with Louise Beckford, the wife of his cousin, and then with William Courtenay, a thirteen year old boy. To avoid a huge scandal he was sent abroad once more and travelled through Europe. He was with the Hamiltons when Catherine died. This was a huge blow to him and he returned to London where he wrote "Dreams". In 1783 he married Lady Margaret Gordon and in 1784 he entered Parliament. The 'Powderham Scandal' resulted is his leaving England once more. His wife died soon after the birth of their second daughter and for twelve years he travelled through Europe, collecting books, paintings and all kinds of curiosities. Beckford spent a large part of his later life in complete isolation in Fonthill Abbey, a large house in gothic style especially built for him. Here he kept his enormous collections. The house had cost him around 273,000 pounds and financial problems forced him to sell it in 1822, together with part of his collections.

26. Bath Preservation Trust: Beckfords Tower beckford's Tower was built in 1827 for william beckford, one of the nation's most accomplished and interesting characters. So I am growing rich, and mean to build towers ' william beckford of ancestry and his family's notorious temper, william beckford (1760-1844) was a character around whom legends http://www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/museums/beckford/beckford.html

About the Trust Group Bookings Education Contact us ... Search Beckford's Introduction History Tower Restoration Volunteers ... Group Bookings History of the Tower 'So I am growing rich, and mean to build towers...' - William Beckford Born to great wealth, endowed with precocious talent, displaying pride of ancestry and his family's notorious temper, William Beckford (1760-1844) was a character around whom legends grew, even in his own lifetime. Beckford's name will always be linked to Fonthill Abbey; the great neo-Gothic house designed by James Wyatt, and built on Beckford's Wiltshire estate. Less well known is Lansdown Tower, or 'Beckford's Tower' as it is more affectionately known as today. After selling Fonthill Abbey in 1822 Beckford moved to Bath, where he continued to indulge his taste for building, landscape gardening, collecting and creating magical interiors. For the last 22 years of his life he pursued these interests with his usual passion and impetuousness, assisted by the young Bath architect Henry Edmund Goodridge. Beckford purchased the land behind his home in Lansdown Crescent to create a mile long ride through a series of gardens and landscaped features to the summit of Lansdown Hill, where he built a 120-foot high neo-classical tower, crowned with an octagonal lantern decorated with gilt gold columns. The two main rooms at the base of the Tower, the Scarlet and Crimson Drawing Rooms, had rich carpets, luxurious curtains, and coffered ceilings panelled in oak and enriched with scarlet, crimson, purple and gold. The spiral staircase with its 154 steps leading up to the Belvedere was carpeted and at the centre of the stairwell stood a colossal vase of polish granite.

27. Beckford, William beckford, william. beckford, william 17601844, English author william beckford. william beckford as writer and collector. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0806691.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Memorial Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Beckford, William Beckford, William, , English author. A wealthy dilettante, Beckford had a great desire to ascend to the nobility. Unfortunately his erratic and strange behavior often worked against his ambitions. About 1796 he built in Wiltshire an extravagant Gothic castle, Fonthill Abbey, where he lived in mysterious seclusion and earned himself the reputation of an eccentric. Although not deeply interested in politics, he served in the House of Commons from 1784 to 1794 and from 1806 to 1820. Beckford is chiefly remembered today for the Gothic romance Vathek, a bizarre tale about the adventures of the shockingly cruel Caliph Vathek. The book was written in French but was first published (1786) in English translation. He was also the author of several books of travel and two burlesques on the sentimental novels of his day, The Elegant Enthusiast (1796) and Azemia See biography by P. Summers (1966).

28. Beckford, William : UK Category On LimeySearch.co.uk Listing all UK websites in the category UK Arts and Entertainment Literature British Gothic beckford, william Literature British Gothic beckford, william. There are 6 sites in this category 1823 print of Fonthill Abbey. william beckford Includes guide to scholarly research on the http://www.limeysearch.co.uk/Arts_and_Entertainment/Literature/British/Gothic/Be

Home Add URL Find out more Contact Search here: UK Search Google Search Welcome to the Limey Search UK Directory. You can search for UK websites using our own database of over 130,000 sites, or you can use Google for international searches. Don't forget to tell your friends if you like this site! UK Arts and Entertainment Literature British ... Gothic Beckford, William There are 6 sites in this category: Beckford's Tower - Information for visitors to the tower (now a museum) and tomb. Fonthill Abbey - Re-creates Beckford's destroyed mansion, Fonthill Abbey, using a CAD program. What is the Beckford Project? - Describes a project to catalog Beckford's nearly 16,000 books. William Alexander Beckford/Ellen Rodgers - An 1823 print of Fonthill Abbey. William Beckford - Includes guide to scholarly research on the author. William Beckford: The Fool of Fonthill - Biographical article, discussing his homosexuality. No matching sponsors found If you would like to advertise your website on Limey Search, you have to sign up through our advertising partner Espotting. Click here to find out how.

29. William Beckford: The Fool Of Fonthill Biographical article, discussing his homosexuality. http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/beckfor1.htm

William Beckford The Fool of Fonthill Rictor Norton nouveau riche ones — but they chose to ostracize this remarkable personality, dubbing him "The Fool of Fonthill." But even money cannot stop the mouths of gossip-mongers. When this self-styled Caliph was 19, he fell in love with the Hon William Courtenay, later 3rd Viscount and 9th Earl of Devon, then ten years old and regarded as one of the most beautiful boys in England, borne out by paintings of him. Beckford and Courtenay saw each other frequently either at Fonthill or at Powderham Castle in Devon, Courtenay's home, for nearly six peaceful years. But then, in 1784, a visitor to Powderham claimed to have heard some "strange goings on" in Courtenay's bedroom, with Beckford apparently in bed with the lad. Soon the newspapers started circulating rumours about the country squire and his "Kitty," as the beautiful Courtenay was effeminately dubbed. Greville wrote to Sir William Hamilton in Naples to say that Beckford "probably will be obliged to vacate his seat, and retire to Italy to make up the loss which Italy has sustained by Lord Tilney's death." Most men would have fled immediately to the Continent, but for nearly a year Beckford braved out the storm of abuse and secluded himself at Fonthill. No criminal charges were filed, but King George III, who personally wished that Beckford could have been hanged, dismissed Beckford's application for a peerage. Beckford and Courtenay were forced to separate to avoid further reprisal. Beckford finally went abroad, where he remained for the next ten years, living mainly in Portugal, followed by an entourage so magnificent that during his travels he was often mistaken for the Emperor of Austria — and charged accordingly. Courtenay, now Lord Devon, secluded himself at Powderham, which he inherited after his father's death.

30. Introduction To Beckfordiana international d étude du XVIIIe siècle, FerneyVoltaire, will serve as an Internetsite for resources and studies on the life and works of william beckford. http://beckford.c18.net/beckfordiana.html

This website, hosted by the , Ferney-Voltaire, will serve as an Internet site for resources and studies on the life and works of William Beckford . It will aim to present current and earlier research, serve as a repository of facsimile editions of Beckford's works for easy access and collect links to Beckfordian items on the web and elsewhere. The keeper of these pages is always grateful to receive contributions in the form of facsimiles (in a format suitable for publication on the web, i.e. scanned images) of any text related to Beckford , or essays, theses and papers on any aspect of Beckford . It is the expressed hope that such contributions to this site will expand the Beckfordiana website well beyond the possibilities of any single individual. The site may be searched at this URL: http://c18.net/search.html There, you may also search other sites and webpages related to Beckford. Some statistics may be viewed here The site is constructed on a Macintosh eMac G4, using Dreamweaver MX and Photoshop 7 running under OSX. It is designed to be viewed at its most ideal in Internet Explorer 5. Set your monitor to screen resolution 1024x768 and millions of colours.

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32. Bath Preservation Trust: Beckfords Tower Built in 1827 for the accomplished but eccentric william beckford, it is now a museum. The Bath Preservation Trust provides photographs, a brief history and description, and visitor information. http://www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/museums/beckford/index.html

About the Trust Group Bookings Education Contact us ... Search Beckford's Introduction History Tower Restoration Volunteers ... Group Bookings Beckford's Tower Beckford's Tower was designed by Henry Edmund Goodridge in 1825 and completed in 1827 for William Beckford (1760-1844), one of the nation's most accomplished and interesting characters. The 120-foot neo-classical Tower, which enjoys uninterrupted views of the countryside, was constructed as a study retreat and to house Beckford's precious collection of art and rare books. The surrounding Victorian Cemetery, containing William Beckford's tomb, was in his lifetime part of a beautiful pleasure garden known as 'Beckford's Ride', which ran from his house in Lansdown Crescent up to the Tower at the top of Lansdown Hill. The Tower is now home to a museum collection displaying furniture originally made for the Tower, alongside paintings, prints and objects illustrating William Beckford's life as a writer, collector and patron of the arts. Visitors can follow in Beckford's footsteps and climb the spiral staircase to the beautifully restored Belvedere and experience the spectacular panoramic view of Bath.

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34. William Alexander Beckford/Ellen Rodgers An 1823 print of Fonthill Abbey. http://www.danhebert.com/beckfo/fam00507.htm

35. The Beckford Society william beckford (17601844) is chiefly remembered as the author of Vathek andbuilder of the greatest of all architectural follies, Fonthill Abbey. http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/becksoc.htm

36. Bath Preservation Trust: Beckfords Tower beckford s Tower was built in 1827 for william beckford, one of thenation s most accomplished and interesting characters. Bath http://www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/museums/beckford/

About the Trust Group Bookings Education Contact us ... Search Beckford's Introduction History Tower Restoration Volunteers ... Group Bookings Beckford's Tower Beckford's Tower was designed by Henry Edmund Goodridge in 1825 and completed in 1827 for William Beckford (1760-1844), one of the nation's most accomplished and interesting characters. The 120-foot neo-classical Tower, which enjoys uninterrupted views of the countryside, was constructed as a study retreat and to house Beckford's precious collection of art and rare books. The surrounding Victorian Cemetery, containing William Beckford's tomb, was in his lifetime part of a beautiful pleasure garden known as 'Beckford's Ride', which ran from his house in Lansdown Crescent up to the Tower at the top of Lansdown Hill. The Tower is now home to a museum collection displaying furniture originally made for the Tower, alongside paintings, prints and objects illustrating William Beckford's life as a writer, collector and patron of the arts. Visitors can follow in Beckford's footsteps and climb the spiral staircase to the beautifully restored Belvedere and experience the spectacular panoramic view of Bath.

37. Glbtq >> Literature >> Beckford, William Extremely wealthy and connected to the aristocracy, British author and connoisseurWilliam beckford was ostracized by English society for the last sixty years http://www.glbtq.com/literature/beckford_w.html

Encyclopedia Discussion Forgot Your Password? Not a Member Yet? JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Advertising Opportunities Terms of Service Alpha Index: A-B C-F G-K L-Q ... T-Z Subjects: A-B C-E F-L M-Z Beckford, William (1760-1844) Extremely wealthy and connected to the aristocracy, British author and connoisseur William Beckford was ostracized by English society for the last sixty years of his life because of his homosexuality. Beckford's father was alderman and lord mayor of London, and his mother, connected by marriage to the Dukes of Hamilton, a stern and unrelenting Calvinist. Beckford's father died when he was ten, and his mother decided that it would be best not to risk sending her delicate son away to school. She hired a series of tutors and monitored his education herself. Beckford early on displayed an interest in art and music, and especially in the exotic Oriental arts of the Arab world. As he entered adolescence, he was lucky that one of his series of tutors was Alexander Cozens, whose own fascination with Eastern lore encouraged Beckford's own. Sponsor Message.

38. Beckford, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. beckford, william. 1760–1844, English author. A wealthy dilettante,beckford had a great desire to ascend to the nobility. http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/Beckford.html

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