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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Spence, Jon
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 AUS 2007
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the novelist (1775-1817)
letters between six sisters
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mosley, Charlotte
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 MIT 2007
- Thesaurus
- egodocumenten, brief, zussen, fascisme, communisme, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- For their wit, intelligence, good looks, and politics, the aristocratic Mitford sisters were the toast of the mid-twentieth century. They were prodigious correspondents, particularly between each other. Mosley, daughter-in-law of Diana Mitford, has selected and excerpted from some 12,000 letters between the sisters over a period of almost 80 years. As friends and confidantes of noted figures of their time, from royals to statesmen to artists, the sisters drop prominent names offhandedly. Notable for their humor and compassion, these letters reveal Nancy's sharp tongue: Pamela's love of the land (but not of children): Diana's lifelong devotion to her fascist husband, Sir Oswald Mosley: Unity's infatuation with Hitler: and Deborah's role as peacemaker. Jessica scandalized her family by running away with her Communist cousin.
Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Helm, Sarah
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 ATK 2005
- Thesaurus
- militaire beroepen, spionnen, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Frankrijk, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Life story of Vera Atkins, born Vera Maria Rosenberg (1908-2000) who, as the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, recruited, trained and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France.
Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Todd, Janet
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 WOL 2007
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, dichters, dochters, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter Fanny. Set against the background of a Europe recovering from the Napoleonic Wars, the author brings to life the story of the Shelley circle, involving Romantic poets like Byron and Shelley, who shared a sexual menage in Switzerland.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Light, Alison
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 2007
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, dienstmeisjes, huishoudelijke arbeid, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1949, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, a woman who could imagine a more open and liberal reality, and an advocate for the female voice. Indeed the Bloomsbury set has often been identified with liberal, open-minded views: Woolf’s circle of artists and writers were considered Bohemians ahead of their time. But they were also of their time. Like thousands of other British households, Virginia Woolf’s relied on live-in domestics for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of her own she so valued was cleaned, heated, and supplied with meals by a series of cooks and maids throughout her childhood and adult life. In this book Light gives depth and dignity to the long-overlooked servants who worked for the Bloomsbury intellectuals.
the story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kennedy, Pagan
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 DIL 2007
- Thesaurus
- transseksualiteit, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Description of the life of Michael Dillon, born Laura Dillon (1915-1962).
the remarkable life of Lady Randolph Churchill
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sebba, Anne
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 CHU 2007
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, journalisten, moeders, historisch, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of lady Randolph Spencer Churchill (1854-1921), born Jennie Jerome, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Based a.o. on family letters.
a life in nature
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lear, Linda
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 POT 2007
- Thesaurus
- biografie, schrijvers, ecologie, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), creator of the immortal Peter Rabbit, is known as an avid writer of comical illustrated letters to friends and as an assertive marketer of her illustrations, and this lively volume also captures her energetic participation in Victorian-era natural history research and conservation. Environmental historian Lear (Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature) relates that, as a child in an upper-middle-class family, Potter sketched flowers, dead animals and live lizards, insects and rodents that she brought home. Potter's witty journals, with their close observations of people, animals, objects and places, serve as the basis for Lear's engrossing account, which will appeal to ecologists, historians, child lit buffs and those who want to know the real Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Benjamin Bunny.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- David, Deirdre
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 KEM 2007
- Thesaurus
- actrices, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the British actress Fanny Kemble (1809-1893).
the perils of marriage
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Muhlstein, Anka
- Creator
- Brownjohn, John > (transl.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 2007
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, huwelijken, macht, ongehuwde vrouwen, partners, minnaars, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Double biography of the cousins Queen Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) and their approach to marriage in the age of absolute monarchies, as well as their personal and political relationships with suitors and courtiers. Marriage was a necessity for any monarch. No marriage, no offspring, no dynasty. Europe has never known a bachelor king. On the other hand, there have been queens who remained unmarried. Like Elizabeth who made the conscious choice never to marry, and therefore never subordinated herself and her power to a male consort, whilst at the same time using the possibility of marriage as a tool to manipulate the balance of power in Europe, In contrast, Mary, acting like a woman, and a woman in thrall to passion, married three times. These decisions affected their destinies, linked them inextricably, and culminated in Mary's execution at Elizabeth's behest.
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