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House of exile
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Evelyn Juers |
"In 1933 the writer and political activist Heinrich Mann, meticulously dressed in a suit, starched collar and bow tie, escaped from Germany carrying nothing more than an umbrella and a briefcase fill… |
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Constance
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Franny Moyle |
Part of a gilded couple, Constance Wilde was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's rights. A founding member of the magical society The Golden Dawn, her pi… |
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Cinderella and the carpetbagger
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Grace Robbins |
"The 1960s and '70s were decades like no others -- radical, experimental, libertine. Grace Robbins chronicles the rollicking good times, peppering her memoir with anecdotes of her encounters with lum… |
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„Ich will ja gar nicht auf der logischen Höhe meiner Zeit stehen“
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Annegret Walz |
Eine zeit- und kulturkritische Biographie der zu Unrecht vergessenen deutsch-jüdischen Dichterin und späteren Frau Gustav Landauers. Der erste Teil schildert die leidenschaftliche Werbung des Dichter… |
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Painted Shadow
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Carole Seymour-Jones |
"By the time she was committed to an asylum in 1938, five years after T. S. Eliot deserted her, Vivienne Eliot was a lonely, distraught figure. Shunned by literary London, she was the "neurotic" wife… |
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Caitlin
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Caitlin Thomas |
Until now, Dylan Thomas's widow, Caitlin, has refused to discuss her marriage with biographers. With good reason: the story of those seventeen years is tumultuous, sordid, and ultimately tragic. But … |
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Parallel lives
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P. Rose,Phyllis Rose |
In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John… |
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Living at the edge : a biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen / Michael Squires and L…
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Michael Squires |
"Living at the Edge follows the separate lives of Lawrence and Frieda up to their first meeting in 1912. Tracing their new life together, it depicts their grateful escape from the English Midlands; t… |
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