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A Little History Of British Gardening

A Little History Of British Gardening

Jenny Uglow

Coloured by Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, and brought to life in the many vivid illustrations, it deals not only with flowery meads, grottoes and vistas, landscapes and ha-has, parks and allotments, but tells you, for example, how the ...
Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

Jenny Uglow

In this superbly illustrated biography, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come.
Hogarth: A Life and a World

Hogarth: A Life and a World

Jenny Uglow

Traces the career of the English artist and satirist, and depicts life in eighteenth-century England
George Eliot

George Eliot

Jenny Uglow

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about.
The Pinecone

The Pinecone

Jenny Uglow

In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and passionate and unusual in every way.
William Hogarth: A Life and a World

William Hogarth: A Life and a World

Jenny Uglow

William Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country, his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books.
Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell

Jenny Uglow

Winner of the Portico Prize Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and ...
Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British ...

Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British ...

Jenny Uglow

A brief coda turns to a fourth kind of relationship, the writers and artists who collaborate from the start, beginning with Dickens and Phiz. Illustrated throughout with a wide variety of examples, this is a book to pore over and enjoy.
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

Jenny Uglow

A Gambling Man is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years - and a portrait of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world, racked with plague, fire and war, in which the risks the king took ...
The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future, 1730-1810

The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future, 1730-1810

Jenny Uglow

Blending science, art and commerce, the Lunar Men built canals, launched balloons, named plants, gases and minerals, changed the face of England and the china in its drawing rooms, and plotted to revolutionize its soul." --Book Jacket.
The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810

The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810

Jenny Uglow

and Merton, 3 vols (1783–89) SchimmelPenninck Christiana C. Hankin (ed.), The Life of Mary Anne SchimmelPenninck, 3rd edn, (1860) Schofield Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society (Oxford, 1963) Schofield Priestley Robert E. Schofield, ...
You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds

You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds

Jenny Lawson

At her signings, fans show up with printouts of these drawings for Jenny to autograph. And inevitably they ask her when will she publish a whole book of them. That moment has arrived. You Are Here is something only Jenny could create.
Unforgettable

Unforgettable

Cecily Von Ziegesar

Callie Vernon has never shared much with Jenny Humphrey, her younger, rosy-cheeked roommate at elite Waverly Academy, but when Jenny steals Callie's long-term boyfriend, Easy Walsh, Callie feels little guilt about kissing him behind Jenny's ...
The Shadow on the Mountain

The Shadow on the Mountain

Jenny Arnesen

Jenny Arnesen. The Shadow on the Mountain Jenny Arnesen Copyright © 2010 by Jenny Arnesen. Library of Congress Control.
The Shadow and the Rose

The Shadow and the Rose

Jenny Arnesen

Jenny Arnesen. The Shadow and the Rose Jenny Arnesen Copyright © 2010 by Jenny Arnesen. Library of Congress Control.
Jenny's journey

Jenny's journey

Sheila White Samton

Jenny imagines sailing across the ocean to visit her friend Maria.
Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays ...

Further Adventures of The Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays ...

M. Merck

Jenny Sundén, “What Happened to Difference in Cyberspace? The (Re)turn of the She-Cyborg,” Feminist Media Studies 2 (2001); also Jenny Sundén and Malin Sveningsson Elm, “Introduction,” in Malin Sveningsson Elm and Jenny Sundén, ...
I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some ...

I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some ...

Jenny Mollen

I Like You Just the Way I Am is about not doing the right thing—about indulging your inner crazy-person. It is Jenny when she's not trying to impress anyone or come across as a responsible, level-headed member of society.
Fast Animals (Enhanced Edition): A Children's Book About the ...

Fast Animals (Enhanced Edition): A Children's Book About the ...

Jenny Lillystone

A Children's Book About the Speed of Animals Jenny Lillystone. |FAST "A- ***... . - - %. - * * %: * '%'. ' '''''', * ''' ''' - *: Jenny Lilly stone Enhance C. E.Cition Table of Contents Fast Animals List ofVideos Famous Animal Racers. Front Cover.
Quilt Africa

Quilt Africa

Jenny Williamson

In this book, the sisters Jenny and Pat give instructions for quilts that have an essence of Africa about them.
The Craft of Natural Dyeing

The Craft of Natural Dyeing

Jenny Dean

Expert dyer Jenny Dean shows you how to dye at home, using simple equipment.
Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia

Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia

Jenny Schmid

Text by Lisa Fischman, Ben Ehrenreich.
Jenny's in the Hospital

Jenny's in the Hospital

Seymour Reit

Jenny breaks her arm and has to spend some time in the hospital.
Furiously Happy

Furiously Happy

Jenny Lawson

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

Jenny Lawson

Have you ever been followed to school by your father's herd of turkeys, mistaken a marriage proposal for an attempted murder or got your arm stuck inside a cow? OK, maybe that's just Jenny Lawson . . .
Sex as Crime?

Sex as Crime?

Preview

A similar discursive reduction, this time relating to age, is found in the processes described by Jenny Davidson and Elena Martellozzo and by Jenny Kitzinger (see below), whereby in the one case adolescent victims of sex offences are ...
What We Hide

What We Hide

Marthe Jocelyn

This is Jenny's chance to finally stand out, so accidentally, on purpose, she tells a lie. In the small world of Ill Hall, everyone has something to hide. Jenny pretends she has a boyfriend. Robbie and Luke both pretend they don't.
Poems and ballads

Poems and ballads

Timothy Loker

JENNY DEAN.1 As bright as blooming flowers in May, Was gentle Jenny Dean ; And well might her fond father say She was his bonny queen : The light of truth was in her face, She stepp'd with such a modest grace, Not one in all the human  ...
Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

Jenny Edkins

To the contrary, Jenny Edkins responds in this book: Famine in the contemporary world is not the antithesis of modernity but its symptom.
Lyme Stones

Lyme Stones

Richard Noble

There was noone close to them and so Victoria told Simon about the strange goings on at Jenny's the day before and the visits to the shop by Tom Shields and Bill Wilder. She found it strange to see Jenny using a safe. “But surely it is normal  ...

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