Author: Julie Holledge
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 1405525738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The Edwardian actress, glamorous and privileged, was the sex symbol of her time. Yet her life was a paradox: off stage she could marry, divorce and take lovers with impugnity; on stage she had to play dutiful wives or daughters or 'scarlet women'. Thousands of these spirited women set out to change the conventional roles they played - and to change the world. Some of them were famous - Athene Seyler, Kitty Marion, Elizabeth Robins, Edy Craig, many others unknown. Managing their own companies, they put on hundreds of plays all over the country - many on taboo subjects such as divorce, sex, venereal disease, prostitution - by little known playwrights as well as established dramatists like Shaw, Ibsen, Barrie. They took the establishment theatre by storm; and they made their mark on the political stage too, forming the Actresses' Franchise League and joining the battle for the vote. Innocent Flowers tells the story of these astonishing women (and includes some of their plays). By tracing their lives and loves, Julie Holledge has rediscovered an inspiring period in the history of women and the theatre.
Author: Carolyne Roehm
Publisher: Potter Style
ISBN: 0770436765
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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It has been more than a decade since Carolyne Roehm first shared her love of gardening and flower arranging. Now, for the first time ever, she turns her own photographic lens to that passion with Flowers, showcasing more than 300 images of the varieties in her abundant gardens, all captured at their most vibrant and exquisite moments throughout the season. With a gardener’s intimate understanding and a designer’s elegant eye, Roehm shows us the flowers she has cultivated for decades in and around Weatherstone, her historic Connecticut home. While alternating dramatic close-ups with portraits of lovely arrangements and sweeping views of her land, Roehm writes with wit, emotion, and affection of what flowers have meant to her, as well as of the joys and travails of the committed gardener’s life. What began as a casual hobby ultimately became a multi-year endeavor, as Roehm used her camera to explore the special relationship a gardener enjoys with her carefully nurtured beauties. The outcome is a remarkably personal visual essay: sumptuous, surprising, and as revealing of the sensibility behind the camera as the magnificent species that stand before it. This beautiful objet d’art—a flower garden in a book—is Carolyne Roehm’s most significant and singular volume yet.
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Author: Hilderic Friend
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: Hilderic Friend
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
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Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Author: WORD PICTURES.
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Thomas MOORE (Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Chelsea.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 630
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