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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Margaret Forster

Forster has also edited the companion volume "Selected Poems" of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and is author of several other biographies.
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir

Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir

Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave.
Isa and May

Isa and May

Margaret Forster

'Margaret Forster has always had the enviable gift of making her characters spring to life, and both Isa and May do just that' Allan Massie, Scotsman 'A sensitive and intelligent novel with passages of beautifully modulated pathos, while ...
My Life in Houses

My Life in Houses

Margaret Forster

I was a lucky girl.’ So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though.
Precious Lives

Precious Lives

Margaret Forster

A brilliant follow-up to Hidden Lives, Margaret Forster's most personal book yet takes up the story of her gritty, northern father, Arthur, intertwined with that of her sister-in-law, Marion, who died of cancer at almost half the age of the ...
Good Wives

Good Wives

Margaret Forster

What is the value of marriage today? Why do couples still marry in church? These are some of the questions Forster asks as she weaves the personal experience of forty years through the stories of three wives who have long fascinated her.
The London Gazette

The London Gazette

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Thompson, William DAYA, Alexandra DRURY, Clarissa Ida BOOTH, Gertrude Annie WILLIAMs, Cecilia Margaret Elizabeth. ForstER, John ... TRickett, Lionel Charles PARsons, Phyllis Blanche VicAR, Isobel Edith Lewis, Daisy Gladys .
Promises to Keep: A Short Story

Promises to Keep: A Short Story

Elizabeth Haynes

'This is PC Dave Forster. He got the short straw.' PC Forster grinned. DI Carter disappeared shortly after that, back to the station. Yonder Cottage was a square, brickbuilt house separated from themain road by an overgrown hedge and an ...
Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: 1921-1970

Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: 1921-1970

Edward Morgan Forster

The correspondence of the distinguished British author, E.M. Forster, portrays his personal life and the development of his literary career
Churchill's Grandmama: Frances, 7th Duchess of Marlborough

Churchill's Grandmama: Frances, 7th Duchess of Marlborough

Margaret Elizabeth Forster

... my brother Jack Heslop, Mary and Nicholas Grey, Eileen and Bob Mason, Carol and Allen Mason, Robert and Ann Parkin, Jeri Bapasola, Gill Brounger, Monica and Gerard Coleman,Tineke and Peter Gill, Alan Jamieson, Sarah and Michael ...
Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive ...

Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive ...

F.S.L. Lyons

Forster to Gladstone, 7 April 1882 (T. Wemyss Reid, Life of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, pp. 549–51). Pall Mall Gazette, 3 April 1882; Forster to Gladstone, 4 April 1882 (T. Wemyss Reid, op. cit., p. 547). Forster to Gladstone, 18 April 1882 (T.
Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...

Margaret Homans

Homans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

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Emily Herring Wilson. Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence — A Friendship in Letters No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence North Carolina Women: Making History (co-authored with Margaret Supplee ...
The Battle For Christabel

The Battle For Christabel

Margaret Forster

Drawn from the perspectives of social workers, grandparents, lovers and foster-mothers, this novel is a remarkable and heartfelt exploration of the complexities of motherhood.
Have The Men Had Enough?

Have The Men Had Enough?

Margaret Forster

That's women's work. This is a story of female courage, where black comedy turns to disturbing pathos revolving around the rights of an indomitable woman
Georgy Girl

Georgy Girl

Margaret Forster

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love.
Mother Can You Hear Me?

Mother Can You Hear Me?

Margaret Forster

Angela Bradbury's 'Poor Mother' : delicate, humble, permanently disappointed, has made endless sacrifices for her family, for which they can never quite be grateful enough.
A Change Had To Come

A Change Had To Come

Gwynne Forster

Now she'll have to decide if she wants to let down her guard, and let in the one man she could get serious about. Praise for the Novels of Gwynne Forster. . . ".
Diary Of An Ordinary Woman

Diary Of An Ordinary Woman

Margaret Forster

A triumph of resolution and evocation, this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary woman's life - a narrative where every word rings true.
By The Bridge

By The Bridge

Ginni Louise Swanton

... Mary Margaret (Swanton) Pinkham .............................................................................. ......184 Elizabeth (Swanton) Geerer.................................................................................. ..............185 Elizabeth (Swanton) ...
Queer Forster

Queer Forster

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Breaking the Engagement with Philosophy: Re-envisioning Hetero / Homo Relations in Maurice Debrah Raschke Forster begins The Longest Journey with a debate over whether "the cow is there" or not,1 over whether objects exist or not , ...
Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics: Opposition ...

Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics: Opposition ...

Anthony Forster

Anthony Forster argues that euroscepticism, in addition to being a political stance, displays the seeds of becoming a new faith.
Private Papers

Private Papers

Margaret Forster

Penelope begins to record their family story as it unfolds. But when Rosemary discovers these private papers she is enraged by her mother's distortions of the truth and proceeds to tell the story from her perspective.
A Passage To India

A Passage To India

E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster's classic novel is here adapted in this highly theatrical, humorous and faithful version for the stage by the author of BENT, Martin Sherman.Published to tie in with a major new production of A PASSAGE TO INDIA produced by ...
E.M. Forster: The critical response: early responses ...

E.M. Forster: The critical response: early responses ...

John Henry Stape

RICHARD KELLER SIMON E. M. Forster's first three novels, Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, and A Room with a View are an intricately interrelated sequence of fictions, a dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Similar ...
Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit: Or, Commemorative ...

Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit: Or, Commemorative ...

William Buell Sprague

ANTHONY FORSTER * ] 1813 — 1820. Anthony Forster was born in the County of Brunswick, N. C, January 11; 1785. His father, who was a respectable farmer, died when this son was yet a child, consigning him to the guardianship of one of  ...
Kant: A Biography

Kant: A Biography

Manfred Kuehn

troduction and notes, by Eckart Forster, translated by Eckart Forster and Stanley Rosen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). See also Ubergang, Untersuchungen zum Spdtwerk Immanuel Kants, edited by the Forum fur Philosophic ...
A history of the Robert S. Ogden family

A history of the Robert S. Ogden family

Alice Hardman Anderson

Elizabeth Early Ruby — Georgann Hartman (73-1 ), Patricia Ruth (73) , Carroll ( 51), Ch. VI. 74- 3. Stacey Lynn Werner — Stephanie Evans (74-1 ), Margaret (74), Carroll (51), Ch. VI. 74-4. Shea Werner — Stephanie Evans (74-1), Margaret ...
Who's Who of American Women, 1979-1980

Who's Who of American Women, 1979-1980

Marquis Who's Who

Helen Vincent (Mrs. Sheldon M. Atlas) Attiyate-Schwarzenbach, Yvonne Helene Attneave, Carolyn (Adams) Lewis Atwood, Ann Margaret Atwood. Margaret Eleanor Austin, Elizabeth Springer Austin, Patricia Avery. Mary Ellen Avram. Henriette ...

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