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Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Claire Harman

Drawing on correspondence unavailable to previous biographers, Claire Harman establishes Bront as the heroine of her own story, one as dramatic and triumphant as one of her own novels. From the Hardcover edition.
Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography

Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography

Claire Harman

In this enthralling and enlightening biography, Claire Harman tells the story of Warner's remarkable life and restores her to her rightful place as one of Britain's most unique and brilliant writers.
Fanny Burney: A biography (Text Only)

Fanny Burney: A biography (Text Only)

Claire Harman

‘Dazzling...full of special delights. Harman excels in the vivid presentation of scenes, the selection of detail...[a] marvellous and beautifully written book.’ Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday
Charlotte Brontë: A Life

Charlotte Brontë: A Life

Claire Harman

It is a uniquely intimate and complex insight into one of Britain's best loved writers. This is the literary biography of the year; if you loved Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens, this event is not to be missed.
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography

Claire Harman

The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence - which has been unavailable to all previous writers.
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

Claire Harman

This is a story of personal struggle, family intrigue, accident, advocacy and sometimes surprising neglect as well as a history of changing public tastes and critical practices.
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (Text Only Edition)

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (Text Only Edition)

Claire Harman

The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence – which has been unavailable to all previous writers.
Fanny Burney: a biography

Fanny Burney: a biography

Claire Harman

A definitive portrait of the celebrated eighteenth-century author and satirist draws on more than seventy years of Burney's diaries and her observations of the leading writers, artists, philosophers, and personalities of her time to ...
Winter in the Air: And Other Stories

Winter in the Air: And Other Stories

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Despite the time span Sylvia Townsend Warner's biographer, Claire Harman, considers this collection the first 'to seem all-of-a-piece - not unvarious, but more controlled.
Critical Receptions: Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan

Critical Receptions: Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan

Jacqueline E. Belanger

Special thanks are also due to Clare Ansdell, Anke Bernau, Liz Cornish, Dorothy Curtis, David Ellis, Lena Eriksson, Paraic Finnerty, Claire Harman, Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Roberta Magnani, Lucy McCaskie, Matthew and  ...
Nurses: Claire and Jan

Nurses: Claire and Jan

Bette Paul

And yet Ruth Watts was obviously all too ready to lose hers. Claire tried to work out how she felt about that. “It's not our decision,” Sister Lawrence had said. “Our job is to nurse her through a traumatic experience.” Claire sighed. Well, that's ...
Hattie B, Magical Vet: The Pony's Hoof

Hattie B, Magical Vet: The Pony's Hoof

Claire Taylor-Smith

With this twinkle of an idea they met the writer Claire Baker and together they created the Kingdom of Bellua - and the pen name Claire Taylor-Smith.
Swimming Lessons

Swimming Lessons

Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller ... House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com First published 2017 Copyright © Claire Fuller, 2017 The moral right of the author has been asserted ISBN: 9780241252161.
Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education: Teachers ...

Research Partnerships in Early Childhood Education: Teachers ...

Judith Duncan

Claire McLachlan Dr. Claire McLachlan is a professor and the leader ofthe Early Years Programme atMassey University Institute ofEducation, NewZealand. Claire's interestsinliteracy stem from her doctoral research, completed inNew Zealand ...
Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances

Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances

Robert Fitzroy Foster

For allegory see especially Claire Connolly's introduction 'The Politics of Love in The Wild Irish Girl' in Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl, Claire Connolly and Stephen Copley (eds.) (London, 2000), p. xxx. 4. My thanks to Claire Connolly for  ...
A Perfect Victim: A Claire Marshall Novel

A Perfect Victim: A Claire Marshall Novel

Patricia Dusenbury

Claire Marshall’s world crumbled when her husband died in a fire.
Blood on the Beach

Blood on the Beach

Sarah N. Harvey

I hadn't met Claire yet, but according to the INTRO brochure she had a PhD in psychology: Doctor Claire Addison. She and another counselor were already on the island, waiting for us. There was an older guy on the boat too, standing next to ...
The Sisters: A gripping psychological suspense

The Sisters: A gripping psychological suspense

Claire Douglas

’Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train’ Marie Claire From the author of Sunday Times bestseller, Local Girl Missing One lied. One died.
Courting Claire

Courting Claire

Linda O'brien

Swept off her feet by the handsome Tyler McCane, Claire Cavanaugh is horrified to learn that her new love's marriage proposal is more business than romance, but she may possess the natural charm and beauty to melt his calculating heart.
Claire Denis

Claire Denis

Judith Mayne

Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat.
Weekends Required: A Danvers Novel

Weekends Required: A Danvers Novel

Sydney Landon

Claire Walters has worked for Jason Danvers as his assistant for three years, but he’s never appreciated her as a woman—until the day she jumps out of a cake at his friend’s bachelor party.… To support her ailing mother, Claire is ...
Claire Denis

Claire Denis

Martine Beugnet

Since her remarkable debut "Chocolat", Claire Denis has been acclaimed as one of the most original filmmakers in France.
Television

Television

Claire Millikin

"In this remarkable collection, Claire Millikin has made her own persistent music of a fully felt, fully experienced life in which 'what's broken never heals completely.
Irony

Irony

Claire Colebrook

In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present.
Last Seen Alive

Last Seen Alive

Claire Douglas

YOU WILL LOVE CLAIRE DOUGLAS' Woman & Home 'Thrillingly tense and twisty, a great read' B A Paris, the bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors _______________ She can run Libby Hall needs to hide, to escape from everything for a while.
Alleinsein ist schwer, Claire

Alleinsein ist schwer, Claire

Yvonne Prinz

Kurz vor den Sommerferien: Die fast 13-jährige Claire entscheidet sich schweren Herzens dafür, sich von ihrer ausgedachten Freundin Elsa zu trennen.

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