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Beatrix Potter
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Charlotte Guillain |
"Introduce students to Beatrix Potter, the author of children's favourites like Peter Rabbit. This biography uses simple text structures and clear images to help readers learn about this amazing writ… |
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Adeline
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Norah Vincent |
"On April 18th, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. For more than half a century, Woolf's… |
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A Florence diary
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Diana Athill |
"The charming and vivacious diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s."-- |
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Testament of youth
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Vera Brittain |
A vivid and passionate record of the years 1900 to 1925, this is Vera Brittain's haunting autobiography - a portrait of a young girl's life in prewar England and a heartbreaking document of the holoc… |
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Vindication
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Lyndall Gordon |
The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family… |
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Vanessa and her sister
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Priya Parmar |
"In 1905, Virginia and Vanessa Stephens and their brothers Thoby and Adrian moved to unfashionable, bohemian Bloomsbury. All in their twenties, orphaned and unmarried, they began holding Thursday nig… |
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The trials of Radclyffe Hall
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Diana Souhami |
This is a biography of Radclyffe Hall, one of England nost eccentric contemporaywomen. She is also the quintissential gay and lesbian icon. The book spans her whole life from her unhappy childhood to… |
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Miss Potter
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Richard Maltby |
The pictures in the colour insert are taken from the movie MISS POTTER starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, directed by Chris Noonan.
A fictional account of how a Victorian woman goes against… |
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Stop the clocks
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Joan Bakewell |
Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre… |
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Long time no see
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Hannah Lowe |
"Without a doubt, Hannah Lowe's father 'Chick', a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family - except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary… |
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Thrumpton Hall
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Miranda Seymour |
Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight, wrote twenty-one-year-old George Seymour in 1944. But the object of his affection was not a young woman but a house—ownership of which was then a distant dream… |
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Vera Brittain
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Berry, Paul |
"Controversial writer, pacifist, and feminist, Vera Brittain (1893-1970) is best known as the author of Testament of Youth, the eloquent memoir of her World War I experiences that gave voice to a gen… |
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Walking in the Shade
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Doris Lessing |
The second volume of Doris Lessing's extraordinary autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son, Peter, and the manuscript for her first novel, The Grass … |
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Ghostwalk
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Rebecca Stott |
A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy--the culmination of her lifel… |
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Quicksands
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Sybille Bedford |
Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and non-fiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this mag… |
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The Children's Book
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A. S. Byatt |
Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize--winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I year… |
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Out in the Midday Sun
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Elspeth Huxley |
Huxley has recorded her memories of the years after *The Flame Trees of Thika* and *The Mottled Lizard*. Readers learn about her return to Kenya after eight years, the people and places she found, an… |
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Julia, a portrait of Julia Strachey
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Julia Frances Strachey |
A wonderful read. Julia, a character. The book sad, in parts shocking but humorous. If you enjoy Bloomsbury and the knowledge and entertainment it offers, you will enjoy this book. |
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Mad Madge
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Katie Whitaker |
Margaret Cavendish's life as a writer and noblewoman unfolded against the backdrop of the 17th Century English Civil War and Restoration.
Pursuing the only career open to women of her class, she … |
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The undergraduate's companion to women writers and their web sites
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Katharine A. Dean |
"Devoted exclusively to women writers from the English-speaking world, this book presents undergraduate students with an abundance of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research.… |
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