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Wild romance
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Chloe Schama |
What started as a friendly conversation between Theresa Longworth and army officer William Charles Yelverton, on a steamer bound from France to England in 1852, would culminate nearly a decade later … |
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Daughter of empire
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Pamela Hicks |
This magical memoir about a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten provides a privileged glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the twentiet… |
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A cup of tea
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Amy Ephron |
Rosemary Fell was born into privilege. She has wealth, well–connected friends, and a handsome fiance, Philip Alsop. Finally she has everything she wants.It is then, in a moment of beneficence, that R… |
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Eaton Hall
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Kelly Mathews |
"In 1901, Florence McCrea married into one of the most prosperous families in the Dominion of Canada, becoming Lady Eaton fourteen years later when her husband, John Craig Eaton, was knighted. Not lo… |
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The Space Between Us
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Thrity N. Umrigar |
Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's house. In Sera Dubash's home, Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in… |
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