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- Mariana - Monica Dickens
Mariana - Monica Dickens
Written by the grand-daughter of Charles Dickens, this 1940 novel is the touching and extremely funny story of a young English girl's growth towards maturity in the 1930s....
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
- Winifred Watson
- anglické
- 256
- 2008
Now a major motion picture starring Frances McDormand (Fargo) and Amy Adams (Enchanted)! “Why has it taken more than half a century for this wonderful flight of humor to be...
Priory - Expendable Man
Expendable Man
Just as Hughes's earlier books had engaged with the political issues of the 1940s - the legacy of the Depression, and the struggles against fascism and rascism - so 'The...
- Diary of a Provincial Lady
Diary of a Provincial Lady
The goal of the provincial lady is to maintain 'niceness', whether it be in the home, relationships or personal behaviour. 'The Diary of a Provincial Lady' first published in...
- Making of a Marchioness
Making of a Marchioness
This is a 1901 novel for adults about a young woman who married a Marchioness and the melodrama that follows. Part one is in the 'Cinderella' tradition, while part two is an...
- Someone at a Distance
Someone at a Distance
J. B. Priestly describes Dorothy Whipple as a "Jane Austen of the Twentieth Century."
Hopkins Manuscript Woman's Place, 1910-1975 - Fidelity
Fidelity
Ruth Holland, bored with her life at home, falls in love with a married man and runs off with him. When she comes back more than a decade later we are shown how her actions have...
- Very Great Profession
Very Great Profession
Ranging through a variety of themes such as the Great War, the servant problem, psycho-analysis, sexuality and feminism, this work examines their effects upon the characters...
Still Missing - To Bed with Grand Music
To Bed with Grand Music
A short, hard-hitting 1946 novel, originally published under the pseudonym 'Sarah Russell', about sex in wartime London.
Greenbanks Writer's Diary - Two Mrs Abbotts
Two Mrs Abbotts
Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surprised when she turns out to be an old friend from her previous life as Miss...
Round About a Pound a Week Greengates - Sherriff R. C. - Maman, What are We Called Now? - Mesnil-Amar Jacqueline
- Country Life Cookery Book
Country Life Cookery Book
Anotace: A classic of seasonal cookery, these recipes are arranged by month and are profoundly seasonable.
Making Conversation - Longford Christine London War Notes - Panter-Downes Mollie Operation Heartbreak - Cooper Duff - Midsummer Night in the Workhouse - Athill Diana
Midsummer Night in the Workhouse - Athill Diana
This is a collection of short stories by writer Diana Athill.