NELSON’ S WOMEN

Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76021

English Summary/英文概要： The fame of Horatio Nelson, as Britain’s greatest naval hero, has always been shadowed by the notoriety of his relations with women. His love affair with Lady Hamilton and the subsequent abandonment of his wife have tainted with scandal his achievement in giving his country global supremacy for a century. Yet these two - Emma and Fanny - were only the most prominent of a gallery of young women - family, friends and lovers - who were instrumental in shaping Nelson’s life and character.

In this book. Tom Pocock examines the characters of the women whose lives were interwoven with the complex, yet charming, personality of Lord Nelson. He illuminates the character of Nelson’s mother. who married her social inferior, and his sisters who were torn between their friendships with his wife and his mistress. Nelson’s Women provides a fascinating insight into the character of Britain’s best-loved naval hero through his relationships with women.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作为英国最伟大的海军英雄霍雷肖•纳尔逊的名声，一直因为他与女人们之间的蜚短流长而所累。他与汉密尔顿夫人的风流韵事，和随后对自己糟糠之妻的遗弃的丑闻，以及他立助英国在一个世纪内称霸海上的地位。然而这两个女人——艾玛和范妮——只是曾进入纳尔逊生命中所有年轻女性中最为出名的两位,她们作为家人,朋友和恋人——塑造了纳尔逊的生活和性格。 在这本书中。汤姆•波考克研究了这些纠缠于纳尔逊人生轨迹中复杂而迷人的女性，个性率直的纳尔逊勋爵。作者还探索了纳尔逊来自社会底层的母亲，以及他与姐妹之间，妻子和情妇之间的情感纠葛。通过纳尔逊的这些红颜们之间的关系的透析，读者可以深入了解这位最受英国人深爱的海军英雄的个性特征。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：There have been plenty of biographies of Nelson, and Pocock’s own Horatio Nelson is one of the better ones; but he has found an ingenious and illuminating angle to explore with his latest foray into Nelson studies. Women, it seems, were at the heart of Nelson’s life. If you pick up the book hoping for salacious details of Nelson’s famous love affair with Lady Hamilton then there are tantalising hints of the "effervescence and sheer carnality" that captivated many men, Nelson included--but Emma Hamilton is the least of it. Women were one constant of Nelson’s peripatetic life, from his dearly loved mother who died when he was 9-years-old, through to Horatia, his daughter by Emma. It’s partly the contrast in all this that is so fascinating: Nelson was so enthralled by women as to become, Pocock argues, almost feminine himself (although, as the book amply demonstrates, he was always "strongly heterosexual"); at the same time Nelson’s greatness lies "of course, in his activities away from female company’". Pocock doesn’t give us any of the famous naval battles, but the complex ins-and-outs of Nelson’s female relationships, and their relationships with one another, are just as intricate and just as absorbing. A fluently written and intriguing read. --Adam Roberts

About the Author/作者介绍： 汤姆•波考克曾发表过18部，（和编辑过两本多）书籍，在这些作品中大多以传记为主，但也包括了他任战时记者的经历。1925年生于伦敦的波考克，父亲是一位小说家和教育家，曾在维斯特敏斯特和伯恩茅斯大学受过良好的教育，1943年加入英国皇家海军。在诺曼底登陆战期间，因身体不适而退役，1945年他成为一名年仅19岁的二战最为年轻的战地记者。在接下来的四年时间里，他为一家杂志社撰写时事新闻，之后成为《每日邮报》的专栏作家，1952年，波考特成为《泰晤士报》的海军随军记者。1956年，他作为《每日快报》的驻外特派专栏记者，1959年开始，波考特成为了《伦敦晚报》的国防专栏作家和战地记者。在最后十年时光里，波考特荣任《旗帜报》的社论撰稿人。波考特在1967年发表的第一部海军军事传记《纳尔逊和他的世界》，描述了在亚丁湾发生的冲突事件，而作者本人也对纳尔逊充满了浓厚的兴趣，乃至于之后的八部作品都围绕着这位英国历史上著名的海军上将和他同时代的人物。1987年，他因发表的《霍雷德•布雷肖》一书，而获得惠特布雷德传记奖。汤姆•波考克为许多杂志撰写过文章，并经常出现在有关纳尔逊电视纪录片有关的节目上。

Tom Pocock is the author of 18 books (and editor of two more), mostly biographies but including two about his experiences as a newspaper war correspondent. Born in London in 1925 - the son of the novelist and educationist Guy Pocock - he was educated at Westminster School and Cheltenham College, joining the Royal Navy in 1943. He was at sea during the invasion of Normandy and, having suffered from ill-health, returned to civilian life and in 1945 became a war correspondent at the age of 19,the youngest of the Second World War. After four years wth the Hulton Press current affairs magazine group, he moved to the Daily Mail as feature-writer and then Naval Correspondent, becoming Naval Correspondent of The Times in 1952. In 1956, he was a foreign corresponent and special writer for the Daily Express and from 1959 was on the staff of the Evening Standard,as feature writer,Defence Correspondent and war correspondent. For the last decade of his time on the Standard he was Travel Editor. He wrote his first book, NELSON AND HIS WORLD in 1967 on his return from reporting the violence in Aden and his interest in Nelson has continued. Indeed, eight of his books are about the admiral and his contemporaries; his HORATIO NELSON was runner-up for the Whitbread Biography Award of 1987. Tom Pocock has contributed to many magazines and appeared on television documentaries about Nelson and the subject of another of his biographies,the novelist and imperialist Sir Rider Haggard.

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