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The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our ...

The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our ...

Mary Russell Mitford

(for the peccant uncle was also godfather and namesake) the future mother of a Ben Morley the third. — Oh the Miss Smith, the Anne, even the Nancy, shrunk into nothing when compared with that short word. Neither is she altogether free from ...
Unity Walkyrie Mitford: la groupie d'Hitler

Unity Walkyrie Mitford: la groupie d'Hitler

Christophe Stener

Unity Walkyrie Mitford fut l’intime d’Adolf Hitler entre 1935 et 1939.
The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection ...

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection ...

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Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends Mary Russell Mitford Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange, William Harness. able to part with Buttercup I cannot imagine ; she is the delight of the whole house. God bless you ! Ever most fondly  ...
Finden's tableaux. A series of picturesque scenes of ...

Finden's tableaux. A series of picturesque scenes of ...

Mary Russell Mitford

Mary Russell Mitford. SCOTLAND. SIR ALLAN AND HIS DOG. " Therefore kis age was as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly." Shakspeare. " No, Oscar ! no ; your young master is deer-stalking to-day. Don't you hear the gun, which has startled ...
The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Laura Thompson

Previously published: Take Six Girls. London: Head of Zeus, 2015.
Hallie's Heart

Hallie's Heart

Shelly Beach

An eccentric antique dealer and her fifteen-year-old niece struggle to find healing in this Mitford-type novel.
Molly Keane: A Life

Molly Keane: A Life

Sally Phipps

Hailed as the Irish Nancy Mitford in her day; as well as writing books she was the leading playwright of the '30s, her work directed by John Gielgud.
Paddy Ryan's Discovery: Re-printed from "Pasquin", 27 April 1867

Paddy Ryan's Discovery: Re-printed from "Pasquin", 27 April 1867

Eustace Revely Mitford

A poetic account of the dispute over the Moonta Mine, including the part played by the hapless discoverer, Ryan.
Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

Mary Russell Mitford

The manner in which this affected poor Mrs. Ben Morley is inconceivable. She talked of the unhappy connexion, as aunts are wont to talk when nieces get paired at Gretna Green, wrote a formal renunciation of the culprit, and has considered ...
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Laura Thompson

The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives – recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson – hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after WWII.
The Encyclopedia of Australian Art

The Encyclopedia of Australian Art

Alan McCulloch

Its cartoons were drawn by Pasquin' (Eustace Revely Mitford), who drew also for other publications. When he died in 1869, his paper died with him. 1 868 Adelaide Punch Published in Adelaide from 5 Dec. 1868. Its contributing artists included ...
Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism

Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism

Elisa Beshero-Bondar

... Sex, and Death in Mitford's Christina,” ELH 76.2 (Summer 2009) 277–308. Jeffrey Sposato, Kelli Maloy, and Tina Phillips Johnson, my friends and colleagues in Greensburg, gave me very helpful advice on early drafts Acknowledgments.
The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler John Mitford ... be published by Mr. Thyer, are the ' original manuscripts ' of Mr. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras, and were bequeathed to me by the late Charles Longueville, Esq. Waleherton, Cheshire, ,' Tr»HW n \TWV " Nov.
Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries

Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries

Alison Booth

9 See 1980s studies: P. D. Edwards, Idyllic Realism from Mary Russell Mitford to Hardy (New York: St Martin's, 1998); ... University Press, 2011), and Linda H. Peterson, Becoming a Woman of Letters (Princeton: Princeton University Press, ...
An impartial history of the town and county of Newcastle ...

An impartial history of the town and county of Newcastle ...

John Baillie (of Newcastle.)

J 553 Cuthbert Blunt mayor, Robert Ellison sheriff 1 554 Cuthbert Ellison mayor, William Dixon sheriff 1 555 Richard Hodshon mayor, John Wilkinson sheriff 1556 Christopher Mitford mayor, William Dent sheriff 1 557 Bartholomew Anderson ...

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