The rescue of Lusia by Albion: Representations of Portugal in british women’s peninsular war poetry

For long considered as exclusive male preserves, war and military conflict have affected and interested a background of a singular poem by Charlotte E. Tonna, The Convent Bell (1819, 1845), about an ill-fated romance between an Irish soldier and a Portuguese nun during the first years of the campaig...

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Main Author: Guimarães, Paula Alexandra (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/46466
Country:Portugal
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