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The Way We Wore

The Way We Wore

Daphne Selfe

Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey.
James Croft, His Antecedants and Descendants

James Croft, His Antecedants and Descendants

Carol Daun Croft

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Rule Britannia

Rule Britannia

Daphne Du Maurier

In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States.
Gendered Spaces

Gendered Spaces

Daphne Spain

'A work of vaulting ambition and synthesis. Daphne Spain is asked about the relations among gender, power, and space, our dwellings and domains.
Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier

The story is as gripping as Rebecca, as full of surprises as My Cousin Rachel ... affectionate, honest, unsentimental and perceptive' Daily Mail 'Convincing throughout .
Best American Magazine Writing 2013

Best American Magazine Writing 2013

The American Society of Magazine Editors

Copyright © 2012 by Charles Graeber. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. “Portrait of a Lady,” by Daphne Merkin, originally published in Elle. Copyright © 2012 by Daphne Merkin. Reprinted by permission of Daphne Merkin . “Social ...
The Brother of Daphne

The Brother of Daphne

Dornford Yates

Daphne is 'well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright'. In this, Yates' earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Brother Of Daphne

The Brother Of Daphne

Dornford Yates

Daphne is ‘well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright’. In this, Yates’ earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Daphne Du Maurier

My godfather, Nick Kendall, came over the following day, bringing Louise with him. As there were no close relatives to summon, and only bequests to Seecombe and the other servants, with the customary donations to the poor in the parish, the ...
The Immortal Throne

The Immortal Throne

Bree Despain

Only Daphne's kiss can save him, but how can she escape Garrick and reach Haden in time? Surprises lurk around every corner in the final chapter of this epic romance story, as Haden and Daphne fight to fulfill their destinies.
American dynasties today

American dynasties today

Wall Street Journal (Firm)

associated with two men, Louis Fuentes and Elliott Kaplan, to whom his parents took strong exception. Elliott Kaplan dated Benson's sister, Lynn, who was, for a short time, also a student at Whittier. But Elliott says Ford family pressure finally ...
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier

Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier

Tatiana de Rosnay

I’m sure my mother would have loved this book.” — Tessa Montgomery d’Alamein, daughter of Daphné du Maurier, as told to Pauline Sommelet in Point de Vue As a bilingual bestselling novelist with a mixed Franco-British bloodline and ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...

Daphne Du Maurier

This omnibus also includes The Doll, a collection of some of du Maurier's most thrilling short stories.
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...

The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...

Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to a wide array of subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside ...
Daphne

Daphne

Tatiana De Rosnay

Con una prosa impeccabile, Tatiana de Rosnay ci restituisce il romanzo della vita di una delle più complesse e tormentate figure di donna del Novecento, la scrittrice inglese Daphne du Maurier, autrice di romanzi come Rebecca, la prima ...
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...

Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...

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DAPHNE MERKIN (1954- ) Carolyn Ariella Sofia BIOGRAPHY "Perfect sex is like some Platonic essence," notes Daphne Merkin in "The Woman in the Balcony," her reading of the biblical Song of Songs, because it takes ' 'place only in our ...
I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent

I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent

Geoffrey Elliott

This is the extraordinary true story of the quest undertaken by Kavan Elliott's son to discover the truth about his father.
Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...

Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...

Daphne Spain

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.
The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation

The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation

Brad Hooper

Daphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 60. 5. Daphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 62. 6. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson/Gale, 2006, 22, p. 129. 7. Coral Ann Howells, Alice Munro, New York: St. Martin's ...
Identity and Belonging: Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in ...

Identity and Belonging: Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in ...

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Elliott, ]., and A. Fleras. 1992. ”Immigration and the Canadian Ethnic Mosaic.” In Multiculturalism in Canada, ed. A. Fleras and]. Elliott. Scarborough: Nelson Canada. Fleras, A., and]. Elliott, eds. 1992. Multiculturalism in Canada Scarborough: ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...

Daphne Du Maurier

Includes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories.
Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ...

Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ...

Anna Elliott

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued (a clean Regency romance novel) Anna Elliott ... is based on “Young Ladies at Home” by Henry Moses, 1823, recreated by Laura Masselos in Georgiana's style. Anna Elliott can be contacted at ...
Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne ...

Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne ...

Pauline Butling

Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen and Fred Wah Pauline Butling, Susan Rudy. CONTENTS Preface vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi one "Historicizing ...
The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family

The Genealogy and History of the Guild, Guile and Gile Family

Charles Burleigh

Vlarv L. Eliot Samuel Eliot Samuel A. Elliot Andrew Elliot Freelove 1776 Elliot Lacretia 1881 Elliott Benson E. Elliott William Elliott Wyman Ellis Aaron 1734 Ellis Abel 1835 Ellis Albert Ellis Calvin F. Ellis Catherine L. Ellis Cora M. Ellis Egbert L.
The Mourning of John Lennon

The Mourning of John Lennon

Anthony Elliott

Elliott explores the complex, contradictory role of love in Lennon's life, with a particular focus on the themes of guilt and grief, sexuality and desire.
Elliott Carter

Elliott Carter

James Wierzbicki

This compact introduction to the life and works of composer Elliott Carter provides a fresh perspective on one of the most significant American composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Concepts of the Self

Concepts of the Self

Anthony Elliott

Anthony Elliott has written a new preface to this third edition to address some of the most recent developments in the field, and offers a powerful challenge to what he describes as ‘the emergence of anti-theories of the self’.

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