Author: Allen Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Splendid Pauper
Author: Allen Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Titled Americans
Author: Elisabeth Kehoe
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
"Set against the backdrop of Victorian and Edwardian society, a portrait of the three Jerome sisters--Jennie, Clara, and Leonie, American heiresses who married into the heights of British society -- spans three generations, from their parents through their children, including Jennie's son, Winston Churchill."--Publisher.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
"Set against the backdrop of Victorian and Edwardian society, a portrait of the three Jerome sisters--Jennie, Clara, and Leonie, American heiresses who married into the heights of British society -- spans three generations, from their parents through their children, including Jennie's son, Winston Churchill."--Publisher.
The splendid village
Author: Ebenezer Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn laws (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn laws (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Real Men Don't Say Splendid
Author: Inc Peter Pauper Press
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593598761
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
People of the male persuasion could become lost in a gray area of androgynous expressions. Sheets or linens? Shoes or pumps? Is it ever OK to say "bye bye" or "scrumptious"? There are words that a real man just doesn't say, ever-words that make women cringe, and turn romantic dates into playdates. Here is a list of these words-99 of them, to be exact-land mines to sweep from the masculine vocabulary.
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593598761
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
People of the male persuasion could become lost in a gray area of androgynous expressions. Sheets or linens? Shoes or pumps? Is it ever OK to say "bye bye" or "scrumptious"? There are words that a real man just doesn't say, ever-words that make women cringe, and turn romantic dates into playdates. Here is a list of these words-99 of them, to be exact-land mines to sweep from the masculine vocabulary.
Elliott's Poems: The splendid village, Corn law rhymes; and other poems
Author: Ebenezer Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Franz Schubert
Author: Newman Flower
Publisher: London, Cassell
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher: London, Cassell
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Telling Tales
Author: Penny Perrick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448217229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The poignant biography of Anita Leslie, only woman to have been awarded both the Croix de Guerre and the Africa Star in World War II. Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for popular biographies of her relatives including Jennie Churchill, Winston's mother, was also an unlikely war heroine. In 1940, Anita volunteered as an ambulance driver. By the end of the war, she was the only woman to have been awarded both the Africa Star and the Croix de Guerre, alongside the other medals for her service across all four fronts of WWII, as recounted in her remarkable memoir Train to Nowhere. In this revealing biography, Penny Perrick brings Anita to life: her complicated early years, her love for her children, her passion for Ireland, her career as a writer, and the ongoing family drama about Castle Leslie. Telling Tales is a scintillating and poignant account of this flamboyant woman.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448217229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The poignant biography of Anita Leslie, only woman to have been awarded both the Croix de Guerre and the Africa Star in World War II. Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for popular biographies of her relatives including Jennie Churchill, Winston's mother, was also an unlikely war heroine. In 1940, Anita volunteered as an ambulance driver. By the end of the war, she was the only woman to have been awarded both the Africa Star and the Croix de Guerre, alongside the other medals for her service across all four fronts of WWII, as recounted in her remarkable memoir Train to Nowhere. In this revealing biography, Penny Perrick brings Anita to life: her complicated early years, her love for her children, her passion for Ireland, her career as a writer, and the ongoing family drama about Castle Leslie. Telling Tales is a scintillating and poignant account of this flamboyant woman.
The Wandering Hermit
Author: Felix Mac Donogh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Hermit Abroad. By the Author of “the Hermit in London,” Etc. [F. Mac Donogh.]
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
To Marry an English Lord
Author: Gail MacColl
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 0761171983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
“Marvelous and entertaining.” —Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age, the heiresses—including a Vanderbilt (railroads), a LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), and a Rogers (oil)—who staked their ground in England, swapping dollars for titles and marrying peers of the British realm. Filled with vivid personalities, grand houses, dashing earls, and a wealth of period details and quotes on the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette, To Marry an English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. Sex, snobbery, humor, social triumphs (and gaffes), are all recalled in marvelous detail, complete with parties, clothes, scandals, affairs, and 100-year-old gossip that’s still scorching.
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 0761171983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
“Marvelous and entertaining.” —Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age, the heiresses—including a Vanderbilt (railroads), a LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), and a Rogers (oil)—who staked their ground in England, swapping dollars for titles and marrying peers of the British realm. Filled with vivid personalities, grand houses, dashing earls, and a wealth of period details and quotes on the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette, To Marry an English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. Sex, snobbery, humor, social triumphs (and gaffes), are all recalled in marvelous detail, complete with parties, clothes, scandals, affairs, and 100-year-old gossip that’s still scorching.