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William Morris: A Life for Our Time
Fiona MacCarthyFiona MacCarthy's skilful drawing together of these disparate elements makes for a comprehensive and compelling biography.
Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes
Fiona MacCarthyFiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often very unexpected ways - as Britain itself changed irreversibly during the 1960s, and the certainties of the old ...
Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860-1960
Fiona MacCarthyIn this fascinating book, Fiona MacCarthy examines Morris's vision of a society in which art could flourish, and how this idea resonated over the ensuing century.
The pronunciation of French
Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthyPeter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy. The Pronunciation of French The Pronunciation of French PETER/MacCARTHY London Oxford University Press 1975.
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the ...
Fiona MacCarthyIn Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, ...
Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern
Fiona MacCarthyThe book features essays by renowned commentators on Modern British design including Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London, and cultural historian and widely published writer on design, Fiona MacCarthy.
The pronunciation of German
Peter Arthur Desmond MacCarthyPeter Arthur Desmond MacCarthy. succeeding syllables up to the end of the group. Instead, if left to their own devices they will tend to pronounce the last salient on a low pitch and rise slightly from it, giving the low rise that is common in ...
HIST OF THE WORLD FROM THE EAR
John MacCarthyThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality
More editionsJOHN MACCARTHY AS: A MINX or THE PAST: A BEAUTY or THE. THE WIFE OF A LIFE GUARDS OFFICER : LADY AVICE MENZIES. Miss Audrey Townshend is the only daughter of Major-General Sir Charles Townshend, K.C.B. , D.S.O., the ...
Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality
More editions4, tgzo DAUGHTER OF THE HERO OF KUT : MISS AUDREY TOWNSHEND. MARRIED LAST MONTH : MRS. JOHN MACCARTHY O'LEARY. THE WIFE OF A LIFE GUARDS OFFICER : LADY AVICE MENZIES. Miss Audrey Townshend is the ...
Windsbraut: Verdammter Ostwind
Regina Mengel»Hm.« John MacCarthy runzelte die Stirn. »Üblicherweise arbeiten wir nur auf persönliche Empfehlung. Unsere Klienten entscheiden sich für uns, gleichermaßen wählen wir handverlesen aus, für wen wir uns starkmachen. Wir sind kein ...
Eric Gill
Fiona MacCarthyEric Gill was perhaps the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving.
William Morris: A Life for Our Time
Fiona MacCarthyThis biography looks at the life and work of one of the greatest English designers of all time, who was also internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement and ranked as a poet together with Tennyson and Browning.
Leslie Stephen
Desmond MacCarthyLESLIE STEPHEN In that joyously aEectionate and informal book, The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, Maitland, after disclaiming any intention of criticising his work, says: “ If, as I doubt not, he has left worthy successors, someone will some ...
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