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George IV

George IV

Christopher Hibbert

Fortunately, this excellent biography by Christopher Hibbert provides all the clues. Mr Hibbert has a sharp eye for the clash of character and the dramatic moment, and George IV, as Regent and King, provides a cornucopia of both.
Sad

Sad

Clare Hibbert

This series is for young children looking at different emotions. The books focus on 'busy' and other activities to do with feelings.
The French Revolution

The French Revolution

Christopher Hibbert

Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert’s brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation.
Florence: The Biography of a City

Florence: The Biography of a City

Christopher Hibbert

This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole.
Queen Victoria: A Personal History

Queen Victoria: A Personal History

Christopher Hibbert

In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who shaped a century.
Journal of the Clan Campbell Society (United States of America).

Journal of the Clan Campbell Society (United States of America).

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Double-Dare Clare

Double-Dare Clare

Yvonne Prinz

Clare plans to spend some quality time with her best friend Allison for their eighth grade winter break, but when sparks start to fly between Allison and Clare's old buddy Paul, Clare might need to turn to her old imaginary friend Elsa to ...
Edward VII: The Last Victorian King

Edward VII: The Last Victorian King

Christopher Hibbert

" King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography.
Nelson: A Personal History

Nelson: A Personal History

Christopher Hibbert

In this tale of Nelson's life on and off the high seas, Hibbert illuminates the admiral's personality, his personal and political friendships, his relationship with Sir William Hamilton, and his passionate love affair with Hamilton's wife, ...
Life in Victorian England:

Life in Victorian England:

Christopher Hibbert

Here, the eminent historian Christopher Hibbert explores life in Victorian England, a time when the British Empire was at its height, when the prosperous English basked in the Pax Britannica and thought their progress and stability would go ...
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Campaign

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Campaign

Christopher Hibbert

Napoleon's Last Campaign Christopher Hibbert. 13. The. Legend. If we ask, as the Greeks wotJld have done, what was the end of the Napoleonic state, the answer must be war. In war it had begun, war remained its raison d' etre, and by war it ...
John Clare

John Clare

Jonathan Bate

‘What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world’ Seamus Heaney John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, ...
Not Fair, Clare

Not Fair, Clare

Yvonne Prinz

Clare is ready to start her first day of eighth grade with her new best friend Allison, but when the popular Ginny Germain welcomes Allison into her exclusive clique, Clare might have to revert to hanging out with her old imaginary friend ...
Rattling Rocco

Rattling Rocco

Susan Clare Anderson

Susan Clare Anderson. Rattling Rocco Edited By Tanya Miller Copyright © 2015 by Susan Clare Anderson. 721486 ISBN: Softcover. Written and Illustrated By SUSAN CLARE ANDERSON “Is there anything we can do?” asked Leramy, looking ...
George III: A Personal History

George III: A Personal History

Christopher Hibbert

In George III: A Personal History, British historian Christopher Hibbert reassesses the royal monarch George III (1738-1820).
John Clare Society Journal, 22 (2003):

John Clare Society Journal, 22 (2003):

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The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.
Resolving Family Conflicts

Resolving Family Conflicts

Jane Murphy

Copyright © 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Clare Huntington for the essays: Clare Huntington (2006), 'Rights Myopia in Child Welfare', UCLA Law Review, 53, pp. 637–40; 656–72. Copyright © 2006 Clare Huntington; ...
John Clare's Romanticism

John Clare's Romanticism

Adam White

Kövesi, Simon, 'John Clare's Deaths: Poverty, Education and Poetry', in New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community, ed. by Simon Kӧvesi and Scott McEathron (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 146–167.
John Clare in Context

John Clare in Context

Geoffrey Summerfield

Critics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.
Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870

Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870

Clare Midgley

The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 Clare Midgley, Senior Lecturer in History Clare Midgley. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 For Quaker views of black equality before God see J.William Frost (ed.), The Quaker Origins of Antislavery ...
The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, ...

The Nature Connection: An Outdoor Workbook for Kids, ...

Clare Walker Leslie

But if Clare wasn't available in person, then I'd want my grandchildren to have this book." -- David Sobel, Director, Teacher Certification, Antioch University
Magisterium: The Iron Trial

Magisterium: The Iron Trial

Cassandra Clare

From the imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping plunge into the magical unknown.
Savage Lands

Savage Lands

Clare Clark

Praised by Hilary Mantel, Amanda Foreman, and the New York Times Book Review for her “verve and intelligence . . . [and] the originality of her imagination,” Clare Clark has become a rising star in historical fiction.
The Great Stink

The Great Stink

Clare Clark

Beautifully written, evocative and compelling, with a fantastically vivid cast of characters, Clare Clarke's first book is a rich and suspenseful novel that draws the reader right into Victorian London and into the worlds of its characters ...
John Clare: selected poems

John Clare: selected poems

John Clare

Packed with features designed to help students get the most from the text they are studying: - Summaries with detailed commentaries - Extended commentaries on key passages - Discussion of themes and literary techniques - Author biography - ...
New Essays on John Clare

New Essays on John Clare

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Scott McEathron This chapter examines the career of Frederick Martin, author of the first biography of the poet, The Life of John Clare (1865). It puts the biography's rhetorical emphases and polemical tendencies into context as extensions of ...
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring ...

The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring ...

Clare Mulley

Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two distinctive and unconventional women, giving a full—and as yet largely unknown—account of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of ...
Francis and Clare: The Complete Works

Francis and Clare: The Complete Works

Saint Francis (of Assisi)

Francis (c. 1182-1226) and Clare (c. 1193-1254) together shaped the spirituality of early 13th-century Europe. Here for the first time in English are their complete writings, brought together in one volume.
The Billionaire and the Virgin: A Billionaires and ...

The Billionaire and the Virgin: A Billionaires and ...

Jessica Clare

As Jessica Clare, she writes erotic contemporary romances, including the Billionaire Boys Club novels and the Animal Magnetism novels.
Keep Me Close

Keep Me Close

Clare Francis

Yet Catherine's watcher is with her. And she has no way of knowing who she can trust. 'Crime novels with action to keep you guessing until the very end' Daily Mail 'Clare Francis has serious crime-writing talent' Mail on Sunday

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