Author: Katherine Lee
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330711934
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Excerpt from In London Town, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel David Everest was the only son of a widowed mother, who, however, was not altogether to be pitied on account of her widowhood. Colonel Everest had certainly done his best to make his decease bearable to his wife, by making her life spent with him as unbearable as debt, indifference, and drinking could make it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Katherine Lee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781330616710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Excerpt from In London Town, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Miss Hatchard being thus driven to rely upon her own resources, sent Sarah Ann for the nearest doctor, and that happening to be a parish one, he came readily enough, any sort of private patient being welcome to him. He was a coarse, vulgar-looking man, with long white teeth, and dyed whiskers, and a flashy breast pin - a doctor of the very lowest order of doctors. He made some coarse remark about the girl's beauty, and spoke in an offensively familiar way to Miss Hatchard, that raised an amiable wish in that worthy soul's breast to throw hot water over him; but she suppressed it, although the kettle was handy, and tried to keep him to the matter in hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Katharine Lee
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330711750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Excerpt from In London Town, Vol. 2: A Novel Summer is long in coming, swift in going; its sweetness rests but as a breath upon the land; no sooner is its tender beauty reached than it begins to fade into autumn decay. Mrs. Everest with her adopted daughter, as she loved to call Fanny, in the Rectory garden at eventide, felt the beauty that lay around her, and felt, too, its fleeting nature. "We must have David home," she said. Fanny stooped to pick a flower, and stuck it in her sash. "It will be very pleasant to have him back again," she said. "It seems so quiet here without him." "Yes," assented his mother, with a sigh; "David has very good spirits. So had his poor, dear father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Kate Retford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501337319
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.
Author: Peter Richmond
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853237662
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Architect, teacher, journalist, town planner and cultural entrepreneur, Sir Charles Reilly (1874–1948) was a leading figure of the early twentieth-century British architectural scene. Marketing Modernisms is the first book to take an in-depth look at Reilly’s career, tracing his evolving architectural ethos via a series of case studies of his built work. Among other issues, the author considers Reilly’s involvement in cultural enterprises such as the establishment of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, his journalism, transatlantic links and town-planning theories. Reilly has been largely overlooked by writers of Modernist histories, but this book restores him to deserved prominence.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Author: The London City Mission Magazine VOL.XXXIII-1868
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Author: Allegra Di Bonaventura
Publisher: Liveright
ISBN: 0871404303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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Winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award Winner the Association for the Study of Connecticut History’s Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award “Incomparably vivid . . . as enthralling a portrait of family life [in colonial New England] as we are likely to have.”—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 until 1758—reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned Adam Jackson for over thirty years. In this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of this master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two families until the eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often left out of our collective memory of New England’s history, but it was hugely impactful on the central unit of colonial life: the family. In every corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as families across the social spectrum fought to survive. In this enlightening study, a new portrait of an era emerges.
Author: J. Wilfred Johnson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786446900
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Ella Fitzgerald was one of America's greatest jazz singers. This volume is as complete a discography of her recorded songs as currently seems possible to compile. This volume also contains a complete discography (1927-1939) for drummer and bandleader Chick Webb, with whom Ella began her recording career in 1935. Part One includes a chronological listing of all known recorded performances of both Chick Webb and Ella. Part Two gives the complete contents of Ella's LPs and CDs, including track listings, titles (with lyricists and composers) and timings. Part Three is an annotated alphabetical listing of all songs contained on all of Fitzgerald's records, with detailed information on each song's composer, lyricist, and history. Reviews of the movies in which Ella appeared and surveys of her career with the Decca, Verve and Pablo music companies are included. The book also has an index of album and CD recordings, and composers, lyricists and musicians.
Author: Katharine Lee Jenner
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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