Author: Mary R. HighamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Agatha Lee's Inheritance
Author: Mary R. HighamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Agatha Lee's Inheritance
Author: Mary R. HighamAgatha Lee's Inheritance
Author: M. B. HighhamPublisher: Saerchinger Press
ISBN: 1445553910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Heiresses
Author: Laura ThompsonPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250202744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife’s inheritance was the property of her husband, making her vulnerable to kidnap, forced marriages, even confinement in an asylum. And in modern times, heiresses fell victim to fortune-hunters who squandered their millions. Heiresses tells the stories of these million dollar babies: Mary Davies, who inherited London’s most valuable real estate, and was bartered from the age of twelve; Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress”, forced into a loveless marriage; Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress who married seven times and died almost penniless; and Patty Hearst, heiress to a newspaper fortune who was arrested for terrorism. However, there are also stories of independence and achievement: Angela Burdett-Coutts, who became one of the greatest philanthropists of Victorian England; Nancy Cunard, who lived off her mother's fortune and became a pioneer of the civil rights movement; and Daisy Fellowes, elegant linchpin of interwar high society and noted fashion editor. Heiresses is about the lives of the rich, who—as F. Scott Fitzgerald said—are ‘different’. But it is also a bigger story about how all women fought their way to equality, and sometimes even found autonomy and fulfillment.
Gordon Kinship
Author: Nancy S. McBridePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
"The Jock (John) and Tam or Thom (Thomas) Gordons are ancestors of our line of Gordons in Virginia.".
The Law Times
Author: The Spanish Civil War
Author: Stanley G. PaynePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139536249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe. Stanley Payne explains the character of the Spanish revolution and the complex web of republican politics, while also examining the development of Franco's counter-revolutionary dictatorship. Payne gives attention to the multiple meanings and interpretations of war and examines why the conflict provoked such strong reactions at the time, and long after. The book also explains the military history of the war and its place in the history of military development, the non-intervention policy of the democracies and the role of German, Italian and Soviet intervention, concluding with an analysis of the place of the war in European affairs, in the context of twentieth-century revolutionary civil wars.
An Agatha Christie Chronology
Author: Nancy Blue WynnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Wynne lists in chronological order the English titles, American titles, plot outlines, and character analyses of every Christie work through 1975.
The Hereditary Register of the United States of America
Author: The History of English
Author: Ishtia SinghPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134644566
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The History of English provides an accessible introduction to the changes that English has undergone from its Indo-European beginnings to the present day. The text looks at the major periods in the history of English, and provides for each a socio-historical context, an overview of the relevant major linguistic changes, and also focuses on an area of current research interest, either in sociolinguistics or in literary studies. Exercises and activities that allow the reader to get 'hands-on' with different stages of the language, as well as with the concepts of language change, are also included. By explaining language change with close reference to literary and other textual examples and emphasising the integral link between a language and its society, this text is especially useful for students of literature as well as linguistics.