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Author : E.M. Delafield
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368939416
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Messalina of the suburbs written by E.M. Delafield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Messalina of the Suburbs (Based on a Real-Life Murder Case) written by E. M. Delafield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Messalina of the Suburbs (Based on a Real-Life Murder Case)', E. M. Delafield delves into the realm of psychological suspense, combining elements of true crime with keen observations of human nature in the suburban setting. Delafield's narrative style is characterized by a precise prose that captures the nuances of societal norms and the complexities of the human mind. The book serves as a fascinating exploration of the darker side of domestic life and the lengths to which individuals may go to protect their secrets, making it a compelling read for fans of both crime fiction and social commentary. Delafield skillfully weaves together a gripping tale that keeps readers on the edge of their seats, unveiling layers of deception and betrayal with each turn of the page. 'The Messalina of the Suburbs' stands out as an intriguing blend of literary fiction and crime thriller, offering a thought-provoking take on suburban life and the hidden motives that drive human behavior.
Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026842669
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Messalina of the Suburbs (Based on a Real-Life Murder Case): Thriller Based on a True Story From the Renowned Author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Thank Heaven Fasting, Faster! Faster! & The Way Things Are written by E. M. Delafield and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Messalina of the Suburbs is based on a famous murder case, in which Edith Thompson was convicted and hanged in 1923 as an accomplice of her lover Bywaters who attacked and killed her husband. Although she was certainly shocked and astonished by the attack, her letters to Bywaters describe her repeated attempts to poison her husband. E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author who is best known for her largely autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, The Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen.
Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387309236
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Messalina Of The Suburbs; And Other Stories written by E. M. Delafield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Honor Cargill-Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639363963
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Messalina written by Honor Cargill-Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most controversial women to have inhabited the Roman world. The lubricious image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless, predatory, and sexually insatiable schemer—derived from the work of male historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius—has taken deep root in the Western imagination. Here, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin puts this traditional narrative of Messalina to the test. She looks first at Messalina's life as it is recounted in the primary sources, before using material and circumstantial evidence to reconstruct each aspect of Messalina's character: politician, wife, adulteress, and prostitute. Finally, she explores how posterity has memorialized Messalina, whether as artist's muse, epitome of depraved pagan womanhood, or as libertine icon portrayed in literature and film. Cargill-Martin sets out not to entirely rewrite Messalina's history, or to salvage her reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time and to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously defined by currents of high politics and patriarchy.
Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Manalive written by G. K. Chesterton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manalive concerns Innocent Smith, a mysterious man who arrives as the new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. This man is accompanied by a great wind and he breathes new life into the household with his games and antics. During his first day in residence the eccentric Smith creates the High Court of Beacon and helps several other tenants to accomplish some great deeds. However, when the household is at its happiest two doctors appear with awful news: Smith is wanted on charges of burglary, desertion of a spouse, polygamy, and attempted murder. Before Smith can be taken to a jail or an asylum, one of the tenants declares that the case falls under the purview of the High Court of Beacon and suggests that the household investigate the matter before involving the authorities or the press. Although things do not look good for Smith, evidence presented to the court will throw a new light on his convictions.
Author : Eleanor Reed
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837646589
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Woman's Weekly and Lower Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958 written by Eleanor Reed and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique intersection between periodical and literary scholarship, and class and gender history, this book showcases a brand-new approach to surveying a popular domestic magazine. Reading Woman’s Weekly alongside titles including Good Housekeeping, My Weekly, Peg’s Paper and Woman’s Own, and works by authors including Dot Allan, E.M. Delafield, George Orwell and J.B. Priestley, it positions the publication within both the contemporary magazine market and the field of literature more broadly, redrawing the parameters of that field as it approaches the domestic magazine as a literary genre in its own right. Between 1918 and 1958, Woman’s Weekly targeted a lower middle-class readership: broadly, housewives and unmarried clerical workers on low incomes, who viewed or aspired to view themselves as middle-class. Examining the magazine’s distinctively lower middle-class treatment of issues including the First World War’s impact on gender, the status of housewives and working women, women’s contribution to the Second World War effort, and Britain’s post-war economic and social recovery, this book supplies fresh and challenging insights into lower middle-class culture, during a period in which Britain’s lower middle classes were gaining prominence, and middle-class lifestyles were undergoing rapid and radical change.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2033 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Bleak House written by Charles Dickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 2033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the centre of Bleak House is the long-running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, inspired by a real-life Chancery case, which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills, which than led to numerous family feuds, schemes and murder. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Author : Lucy Bland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847798950
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Modern women on trial written by Lucy Bland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history.
Author : Arthur Cheney Train
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Confessions of Artemas Quibble written by Arthur Cheney Train and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confessions of Artemas Quibble tells the tale of the early 20th-century law and order, as recounted by a shady and successful New York criminal lawyer. The story begins with Quibble's reminiscences of his early life and how he decided to practice law, and later moves on to a series of anecdotes about his cases and descriptions of numerous tricks, sophistries and sundry artifices used by infamous shyster lawyers. Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945) was an American lawyer and writer of legal thrillers, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wily old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law's injustices. Train wrote a number of novels and short stories inspired by his parallel career as a lawyer in private practice and a New York County District Attorney.
Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Consequences written by E. M. Delafield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Consequences' is a coming of age novel about a young girl. Alexandra loves to quarrel with her younger siblings. But a game taken too far, one evening, results in her sister being injured, and her angry parents vow to send her off to boarding school. It is at the boarding school where she will meet the illustrious Queenie Torrance, a friendship that will turn out to be quite adventurous. For Queenie is a girl far more mature for her age than the average girl...
Author : Victoria Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108293735
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Crime Writing in Interwar Britain written by Victoria Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interwar period is often described as the 'Golden Age' of detective fiction, but many other kinds of crime writing, both factual and fictional, were also widely read during these years. Crime Writing in Interwar Britain: Fact and Fiction in the Golden Age considers some of this neglected material in order to provide a richer and more complex view of how crime and criminality were understood between the wars. A number of the authors discussed, including Dorothy L. Sayers, Marie Belloc Lowndes and F. Tennyson Jesse, wrote about crime in essays, book reviews, newspaper articles and works of popular criminology, as well as in novels and short stories. Placing debates about detective fiction in the context of this largely forgotten but rich and diverse culture of writing about crime will give a unique new picture of how criminality and the legal process were considered at this time.
Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786560496
Total Pages : 7698 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated) written by E. M. Delafield and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 7698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.delphiclassics.com
Author : Maria Wyke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199228337
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Roman Mistress written by Maria Wyke and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress explores representations of transgressive women in Latin love poetry and British television drama, in Roman historiography and nineteenth-century Italian anthropology, on classical coinage and college websites, as poetic metaphor and in the Hollywood star system. In a highly accessible style, the book makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies.
Author : W. Gan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023023271X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Women, Privacy and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century British Writing written by W. Gan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privacy is not often thought of as a marker of modernity but a look at British women's writing of the early twentieth century suggests that it should be so. This book examines the female pursuit of privacy, particularly of the spatial kind, as women began to claim privacy as an entitlement of the modern, middle-class woman.
Author : Delafield E. M.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780259728696
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Messalina of the Suburbs written by Delafield E. M. and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307826198
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Lewis Percy written by Anita Brookner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.
