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Download or read book The Cockney Girl written by Gilda O'Neill and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An East End mother and daughter travel from London to work the hop fields of Kent in this gripping saga of love and loss on the eve of the Great War. The annual migration from London to the hop fields of Kent is normally a longed-for escape from the dust and grime of the East End. But this year Rose Fairleigh worries their departure will interrupt the slow-blossoming romance between her daughter Jess and postman Jack Barnes. Jack promises to visit and assures Rose he will keep an eye on her three sons, who are staying behind. Before he knows it, though, one of the boys is in trouble and it’s up to Jack to bring him home. Meanwhile in Kent, Jess’ life grows increasingly confusing as, full of promises and charm, the son of suffragette Lady Worlington turns his attentions to her . . . A heart-wrenching East End family drama, perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Downton Abbey.
Download or read book Cockney Girl written by Gilda Moss Haber and published by DB. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cockney Girl is a second-generation Jewish-British child's eyewitness account of tumultuous East London and her eccentric family in England 1934-1950. The writer was then aged 5-20. This zeitgeist, before, during and after World War Two, is based on memor
Download or read book Cockney Girl Bca written by O'neil and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1992-12-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Girls written by Hall Caine and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working Girls written by Katherine Mullin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Young women of the lower-middle and working classes were increasingly abandoning domestic service in favour of occupations of contested propriety. They inspired both moral unease and erotic fascination. Working Girls considers representations of four highly glamorised yet controversial types of women worker: telegraphists and typists (in newly-feminised offices), shop assistants (in the new department stores), and barmaids (in the new 'gin palaces' of major British cities). Economically emancipated (more or less) and liberated (more or less) from the protection and constraints of home and family, shop-girls, barmaids, typists, and telegraphists became mass media sensations. They energised a wide range of late-Victorian and Modernist fiction. This study will bring late-Victorian and Modernist British writers into intimate conversation with a substantial new archive of ephemeral sources often regarded as remote from high art and its concerns: popular fiction; music hall and musical comedy; beauty pageants and fairground exhibitions; visual art and early film; careers manuals; magazine and periodical journalism; moral reform crusades, Royal Commissions, and attempts at protective legislation. Working Girls argues that these seductive yet perilous young women helped writers negotiate anxieties about the state of literary culture in the United Kingdom. Crucially, they preoccupy novelists who were themselves beleaguered by anxieties over cultural capital, the shifting pressures of the literary marketplace, or controversies about the morality of fiction (often leading to the threat of censorship). In articulating questions about sexual integrity, Working Girls articulate often submerged questions about textual integrity and the role of the modern novel.
Book Synopsis Shop Girls of Harpers Books 1-3 by : Rosie Clarke
Download or read book Shop Girls of Harpers Books 1-3 written by Rosie Clarke and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 1139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the 'Welcome to Harpers Emporium' series from bestselling author Rose Clarke 'Brilliant read. Wonderful characters that draw you into Harpers world. Thoroughly enjoyable.' Kitty Neale This boxset contains the first 3 books in the heartwarming Welcome to Harpers Emporium series. The Shop Girls of Harpers Love and Marriage at Harpers Rainy Days for the Harpers Girls The Shop Girls at Harpers London 1911: When Sally, Beth, Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford Street, they have no idea they will become lifelong friends. When all four girls are lucky enough to be selected as sales staff their exciting new adventure begins. Join them as they overcome heartbreak and grief, find love and happiness and remain united in their friendship, whatever life throws at them. Love and Marriage at Harpers The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace. United by the suffragette cause and now living under one roof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache and tears. Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringing strength through hardship and pain and friendship and love. Rainy Days for the Harpers Girls It is two years since Harpers Emporium opened its doors and life is good. Harpers welcomes some new faces and they all become part of the daily life at the busy store. However, whilst the sun is shining on the streets of London, dark clouds gather over Europe as war looms threatening rainy days for the girls...
Book Synopsis Love and Marriage at Harpers by : Rosie Clarke
Download or read book Love and Marriage at Harpers written by Rosie Clarke and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next exciting instalment from the bestselling author of The Shop Girls of Harpers and The Mulberry Lane Series. Oxford St, London, 1913 The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace. United by the suffragette cause and now living under one roof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache and tears. Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringing strength through hardship and pain and friendship and love. A heart-warming saga following the lives, loves and losses of the Harpers Girls. Perfect for fans of Lizzie Lane, Pam Howes and Dilly Court. What readers are saying about Love and Marriage at Harpers: 'Brilliant read. Wonderful characters that draw you into Harpers world. Thoroughly enjoyable' - Kitty Neale 'It was so nice to catch up with the Harpers girls. I love that not only can I get lost in their daily lives, loves and losses but the fact I learn a little history along the way. I can't wait for the next one' - Reader Review 'A thoroughly enjoyable read.' * - Reader Review* 'Another cracking read from Rosie Clarke... I heartily recommend that you read her books.' -* Reader Review* 'I love Rosie Clarke's books and this, the second in the Harpers Girls series did not disappoint.' - Reader Review 'I didn't want the book to end.' - Reader Review 'I can't wait to read the next book in the series.' -* Reader Review* 'A delightful addictive read.' -* Reader Review* 'Best book I have read in a while' - Reader Review 'Love and Marriage at Harpers is a charming historical novel' -* Reader Review* 'A wonderfully written tale of friendship, romance and the ties that bind' - Reader Review 'I felt as though I had been reunited with old friends' - *Reader Review *
Book Synopsis The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000 by : Keith D. M. Snell
Download or read book The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000 written by Keith D. M. Snell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.
Book Synopsis Knowing Me, Knowing You by : Helen Bailey
Download or read book Knowing Me, Knowing You written by Helen Bailey and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chantelle 'Channy' Allen is just about enduring her slightly bored teenage existence - trying not to die of embarrassment every time her parents' Abba tribute band perform a cringing medley of hits in front of all her friends... But then Channy finds out something that turns her world upside down; something that makes perfect sense, but at the same time seems utterly ridiculous. Something that Channy is intent on investigating - despite the distraction of gorgeous French exchange student Antoine. Channy's about to learn a valuable life lesson: sometimes curiosity is a dangerous thing...
Download or read book Boot and Shoe Recorder written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Surrounded By Beauty by : Quincy Mic Connell
Download or read book Surrounded By Beauty written by Quincy Mic Connell and published by ShieldCrest Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25,000 make-ups were given worldwide, transforming pretty women into the most attractive on the planet, all from the interior of a London Routemaster bus! This memoir, written by the driver Mic Connell chronicles the journey of the Mary Quant Beauty Bus across Europe and the Americas, through mountain ranges, deserts and at least one swamp. Fifty years later, Mic Connell re-discovered the letters, press cuttings, progress reports and his personal journals from that era. Surrounded by Beauty is a fascinating historical record of those years on the road spreading the influence of Mary Quant’s revolutionary make-up brand. Through literal and metaphorical highs and lows, Mic shines a light on all that happened on a London bus far from home.
Book Synopsis The Art of Creating Fiction by : Zulfikar Ghose
Download or read book The Art of Creating Fiction written by Zulfikar Ghose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone wishing to write short stories and novels will learn from The Art of Creating Fiction how some eminent writers, such as William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, created their art. By giving the new writer an understanding of fiction as it has been produced by the great novelists, The Art of Creating Fiction serves a double purpose: it is an implicit manual on how to write fiction and at the same time a work that provokes, challenges and inspires the new writer to cultivate an ambition for greatness.
Book Synopsis The Wrong Set and Other Stories by : Angus Wilson
Download or read book The Wrong Set and Other Stories written by Angus Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angus Wilson's first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim. The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism. There is the wallowing in self-adulation on the part of the 'crazy Cockshott family', as they delight to dub themselves. There is the search for really nice standards on the part of Vi, singer at the 'Passion Fruit' nightclub - as hopelessly bemused a spirit as ever lived in sin at Earl's Court and attempted to lecture a young Communist nephew with untidy hair and spectacles. There is the humbug of the bullying new curator at the provincial Art Gallery. And the staff dance at the South Kensington hotel, where lives the lady who spends her life trying to achieve 'a Knightsbridge appearance on a Kensington purse', and where, as the evening progresses and the drinks begin to tell, the lady-like façades and gentlemanly courtesy of the clientele crack up with a vengeance.
Download or read book Quota Quickies written by Steve Chibnall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first of two volumes, will provide a major new history of the British B film, tracing the development of the low-budget supporting feature from the 1927 Films Act (which introduced a quota system for the distribution and exhibition of indigenous product) to the age of television, when B film producers channelled their energies into making TV programmes. Along the way, the authors will address leading producers and studios, B film stars, distributors, the genres and themes that tended to dominate B film production (comedy, horror, crime and fantasy). 'Quota Quickies' will include a case study of the B films of Michael Powell. The authors' argument is that the B film was hugely important in British cinema history in offering an opportunity for British actors and technicians to develop their careers, and that the films themselves provided an outlet for the exploration of peculiarly British cultural concerns in an industry traditionally dominated by Hollywood output. They also contend that some of the films stand up well to contemporary viewing and are deserving of critical re-evaluation.
Book Synopsis Bringing Down the Duke by : Evie Dunmore
Download or read book Bringing Down the Duke written by Evie Dunmore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is, well, extraordinary.”—Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author “With her sterling debut, Evie Dunmore dives into a fresh new space in historical romance that hits all the right notes.”—Entertainment Weekly A stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford suffragists in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a powerful duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order. England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. But he wouldn't be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn't claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring...or could he? Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke.... “There is nothing quite so satisfying as seeing such a man brought to his knees by a beautiful woman with nothing to her name except an inviolable sense of her own self-worth.”—NPR
Book Synopsis Innocent Flowers by : Julie Holledge
Download or read book Innocent Flowers written by Julie Holledge and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Few Well-Frozen Worms by : Ronnie Barker
Download or read book A Few Well-Frozen Worms written by Ronnie Barker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a fondness for spoonerisms and double entendres, Ronnie Barker is one of the nation’s greatest comics. Gathered together in this second ‘best of’ volume is a cocktail of his sketches and monologues from every strand of his long and brilliant career.
