Author: Meg Hutchinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788549465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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Saran Chandler is a locksmith's daughter but following her father's death, her happy family is torn apart and she is left to fend for herself. Luke Hipton is a workhouse orphan with a murky past who is wise beyond his years and becomes her loyal friend and companion. After the death of her father, Saran Chandler stands helplessly by as her mother and sister are sold by the vile Enoch Jacobs. But when Enoch drowns, Saran swears that she will not rest until she has secured her family's release. Penniless and alone, she barely knows where to start until she teams up with workhouse orphan Luke. Together they try to survive in the harsh environment of the industrial Midlands but before long they make both dangerous enemies who prey upon the vulnerable. Will they ever find Saran's family and their happily ever after?
Author: John Diprose
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Author: Judith Walkowitz
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300151942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
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London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its old buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.
Author: Terri Doughty
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551115283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The Girl’s Own Paper, founded in 1880, both shaped and reflected tensions between traditional domestic ideologies of the period and New Woman values in the context of the figure of the New Girl. These selections from the journal demonstrate the efforts of its publisher (the Religious Tract Society) to combat the negative moral influence of sensational popular literature while at the same time addressing the desires of its audience for exciting reading material and information about topics mothers could not or would not discuss. Selected fiction gives a rich sense of the conventions and the domestic ideology of the time; the nonfiction prose ranges from essays on conduct and household management to articles on new opportunities in education and work.
Author: Hodder and Stoughton, ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Pages : 1188
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Author: Meg Hutchinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178954274X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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She will fight for her father's legacy against those determined to destroy her... Abel Pardoe's daughter Phoebe is young and in love, doted on by her mine owner father and engaged to be married to the handsome and charming Montrose Wheeler. But when Abel is killed in a freak accident Phoebe's whole world quickly crumbles around her. Still grieving, she is stunned to be convicted of a crime she didn't commit. The product of a gilded upbringing, Phoebe finds it hard to adjust to the harsh cruelty of life in the infamous Handsworth Prison. A sentence that would be even harder to bear if she knew that someone close to home had engineered her imprisonment. On her release, Phoebe vows that one day she will count for something and so she returns to the canal side house she bought with money from her grandmother, determined to help those less fortunate than herself. But little does she know, her hidden enemy is still set on revenge...
Author: Meg Hutchinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1789542774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Can a legacy of hate ever be overcome... Maura Deverell lives with her ailing mother in the beautiful Irish hamlet of Clonmacnoise, where the locals still believe in ancient magic. Their cruel landlord Seamus Riordan threatens to throw the women out of their cottage unless Maura agrees to marry his young son, Liam Riordan. But before Maura can decide, she is brutally raped by Liam's brother Padraig, who is determined to use the beautiful Maura for his own pleasure. Ireland is locked in the grips of the potato famine, but Maura though weakened by hunger, still finds the strength to defy the Riordans. On her deathbed, Maura's mother makes her promise to leave Ireland for good, whilst cursing the Riordans with her powerful magic. Escaping to Birmingham, Maura tries to rebuild her life, but all the time she longs for home. Will it ever be safe for her to return to her beloved Ireland?
Author: Glenda Young
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 1472283260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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'Real sagas with female characters right at the heart' Woman's Hour 'In the world of historical saga writers, there's a brand new voice' My Weekly 'Heart-warming, emotional and simply wonderful . . . If you think family sagas aren't for you, you've never read Glenda Young's books - pick one up today and you'll be converted' 5 * reader review The brand-new saga from the author of A Mother's Christmas Wish, available to preorder now. If you love Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, you'll LOVE Glenda Young's 'amazing novels!' (ITV's This Morning presenter Sharon Marshall) .................................................. 'Please, sir, take us both. We only have each other. We don't know how to live apart.' After the death of their parents, sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whilst they have a roof over their heads, the young orphans are unloved, unwanted, and always hungry, with only one pair of boots between them. Keen to make money, Nellie hatches a plan to sell the girls to the mysterious Mr Scurrfield. But when the day comes for them to leave, Scurrfield reveals he will take only one of the sisters - and he will decide which it will be on the turn of a sixpence. Ten years later, Poppy is married with three children. Not a day goes by when she doesn't think about Rose, but after many years of searching, Poppy has accepted that her sister is lost to her. That is until a letter suddenly arrives, revealing Rose's fate and breaking Poppy's heart. Determined to be reunited with her beloved sister, Poppy sets out to bring Rose home. .................................................. What readers are saying about Glenda's heartwrenching sagas: 'Definitely an author not to be missed when it comes to family sagas' The Book Magnet 'Writes superb historical fiction that bring the era alive. Her books are unbeatable and unputdownable' Ginger Book Geek 'The perfectly imperfect, human nature of Glenda Young's characters are what keeps her readership hooked' Clyde's Corner 'Gritty, compelling and full of heart . . an exceptional saga' Bookish Jottings 'Better than a Catherine Cookson' 5* reader review 'Wonderful read, full of rich characters, evocative description and a touch of romance' 5* reader review 'Just wanted it to go on forever and read more about the characters and their lives' 5* reader review Love Glenda's sagas? Don't miss her cosy crime mystery series staring Helen Dexter and her trusty greyhound, Suki, starting with Murder at the Seaview Hotel and Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel, out now!
