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Book Synopsis The Second-Last Woman in England by : Maggie Joel
Download or read book The Second-Last Woman in England written by Maggie Joel and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compulsively readable” novel of marriage, murder, and psychological suspense set in post-World War II London (The Cleveland Plain Dealer). It’s 1952 in Britain, and it’s a brave and bright new world. The Depression is over, the war is over, even the endless bloody rationing is nearly over—and the future looks as lovely as the young Elizabeth, due to be crowned next June. Things seem to be looking up for Mrs. Harriet Wallis, in particular. Her husband has an important job with an important firm; the children are settling in with the new nanny; the new fashions are terrifically flattering; and the whole grubby, grim, ghastly past is gone. But when Coronation Day finally arrives, as family and friends gather at her home to drink champagne and watch the historic event on the brand-new television set, Harriet Wallis will pump six bullets into her husband’s body, setting herself on the path to becoming second-last woman in England to be hanged. This absorbing whydunit thriller is “a story of the hidden trauma carried by ordinary people throughout their lives and which, given the right circumstances, can reach breaking point” (Historical Novel Society). “Mesmerizing . . .some great twists.” —Australian Women’s Weekly A Christina Stead Award Winner for Fiction and a Sydney Morning Herald “Pick of the Week”
Book Synopsis The Second-Last Woman in England by : Maggie Joel
Download or read book The Second-Last Woman in England written by Maggie Joel and published by Canvas. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1953: Mrs Harriet Wallis is convicted of the murder of her husband, Cecil, and is sentenced to death by hanging. 1952: The Wallises appear to be a conventional household. When the police turn up at the front door on the day a new nanny arrives, so begins a chain of events that will culminate in Cecil's murder. An employee at Cecil's firm has embezzled money and Cecil is implicated. Meanwhile his wife, Harriet, is dismayed by the reappearance of a man she did not expect to see again... Set in post-war London, we follow a well-to-do family - both inside and outside the house - ruled by strict conventions.
Book Synopsis The Second Last Woman in England (Dyslexic Edition) by : Maggie Joel
Download or read book The Second Last Woman in England (Dyslexic Edition) written by Maggie Joel and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Kensington, London, 1953. Mrs Harriet Wallis is found guilty of the murder of her husband, Cecil. It is the year of the Coronation and, as a new Queen ascends the throne, Mrs Wallis will become the second-last woman in England to be hanged. One year earlier, and Harriet's life is thrown into turmoil by the reappearance of a man she did not expect to ever see again. A new nanny, Jean Corbett, arrives at the Wallis household - a young woman still traumatised by the devastating loss of her entire family during the War. And two policemen come to the house investigating a theft at Mr Wallis's shipping firm. Thus, a chain of events is set in place, and when Mr Wallis makes the momentous decision to purchase a television set on which to watch the Coronation, his and Harriet's fates are sealed. Set in a post-war period when a well-to-do British family's existence - both outside and inside the home - is ruled by a strict set of conventions, The Second-Last Woman in England explores the depth of emotions that are always there in every family but rarely surface. And what happens when they do.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Registrar-General for England and Wales by : Great Britain. General Register Office
Download or read book Annual Report of the Registrar-General for England and Wales written by Great Britain. General Register Office and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Young Woman's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diplomatic fly-sheets, chiefly repr. from Vanity fair by :
Download or read book Diplomatic fly-sheets, chiefly repr. from Vanity fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book British Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Review of Reviews by : William Thomas Stead
Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer ... The Twenty-second Edition: with Many Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, by John King, Etc by : Richard BURN (LL.D.)
Download or read book The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer ... The Twenty-second Edition: with Many Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, by John King, Etc written by Richard BURN (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Women to the Front by : Heather Sheard
Download or read book Women to the Front written by Heather Sheard and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outbreak of World War I, 129 women were registered as medical practitioners in Australia, and many of them were eager to contribute their skills and expertise to the war effort. For the military establishment, however, the notion of women doctors serving on the battlefield was unthinkable. Undaunted, at least twenty-four Australian women doctors ignored official military policy and headed to the frontlines. This book explores the stories of the Australian women who served as surgeons, pathologists, anaesthetists and medical officers between 1914 and 1919. Despite saving hundreds of lives, their experiences are almost totally absent from official military records, both in Australia and Great Britain, and many of their achievements have remained invisible for over a century. Until now. Heather Sheard and Ruth Lee have compiled a fascinating and meticulously researched account of the Great War, seen through the eyes of these women and their essential work. From the Eastern to the Western Fronts, to Malta, and to London, we bear witness to the terrible conditions, the horrific injuries, the constant danger, and above all, the skill and courage displayed by this group of remarkable Australians. Women to the Front is a war story unlike any other.
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Book Synopsis European Women and the Second British Empire by : Margaret Strobel
Download or read book European Women and the Second British Empire written by Margaret Strobel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It enhances our understanding of intracultural and cross-cultural relationships and raises significant questions about the complexities of the colonial phenomenon in the modern era." —Journal of World History "Provides a powerful and important analysis foregrounding the ideological construction of whiteness in understandings of gender and sexuality. . . . Margaret Strobel manages to provide a convincing analysis of the contradictory and often challenging space occupied by European women in the project of empire." —Signs "Strobel is to be highly commended for an historical analysis that brings critical light to bear on the complex interactions of gender, race, and class that have shadowed both European men's and women's participation in colonialism." —Women and Politics " . . . a clear exposition and synthesis . . . In this useful introduction to a new field, Strobel lays out clearly the arguments on which it is built. Her book makes it possible to acquaint students with the initial array of scholarship that is already growing. She also demonstrates that rewriting an imperial history that is sensitive to gender, culture, race, sexuality, and power is an exhilarating enterprise." —American Historical Review Based on the published accounts of travelers and officials' wives, biographies and other materials, this is a lively, fast-paced account of the roles of white women in the British empire, from about 1880 to the recent past. The European women of the second British empire carved out a space for themselves amid the options made available to them by British expansion, but they too were treated as inferiors—the inferior sex within the superior race.
Book Synopsis Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 by : Maud Howe Elliott
Download or read book Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 written by Maud Howe Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
