Download or read book The Brontes Went to Woolworths written by Rachel Ferguson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface the Doll and Dion Saffyn the pierrot, to their fulsomely-imagined friendship with real high-court Judge Toddington who, since Mrs Carne did jury duty, they affectionately called Toddy. However, when Deirdre meets Toddy's real-life wife at a charity bazaar, the sisters are forced to confront the subject of their imaginings. Will the sisters cast off the fantasies of childhood forever? Will Toddy and his wife, Lady Mildred, accept these charmingly eccentric girls? And when fancy and reality collide, who can tell whether Ironface can really talk, whether Judge Toddington truly wears lavender silk pyjamas or whether the Brontës did indeed go to Woolworths? The Brontës Went to Woolworths is part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early twentieth-century chosen by readers for readers.
Download or read book The Brontes Went to Woolworths written by Rachel Ferguson and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters'; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of "The Brontes Went to Woolworths," one of three sisters. London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface the Doll and Dion Saffyn the pierrot, to their fulsomely-imagined friendship with real high-court Judge Toddington who, since Mrs Carne did jury duty, they affectionately called Toddy. However, when Deirdre meets Toddy's real-life wife at a charity bazaar, the sisters are forced to confront the subject of their imaginings. Will the sisters cast off the fantasies of childhood forever? Will Toddy and his wife, Lady Mildred, accept these charmingly eccentric girls? And when fancy and reality collide, who can tell whether Ironface can really talk, whether Judge Toddington truly wears lavender silk pyjamas or whether the Brontes did indeed go to Woolworths? "The Brontes Went to Woolworths "is part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early twentieth-century chosen by readers for readers.
Download or read book The Bront s Went to Woolworth s written by Rachel FERGUSON and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brontes Went to Woolworths written by Rachel Ferguson and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Spoons Came from Woolworths written by Barbara Comyns and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can’t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn’t make up for her husband’s indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia’s artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.
Download or read book The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s to 1950s written by Nicola Humble and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humble presents a study of the novels by and for middle-class women that dominated the publishing market in the first half of the 20th century. She studies the work of authors such as Agatha Christie alongside cultural products such as cookery books.
Download or read book Transitions in Middlebrow Writing 1880 1930 written by K. Macdonald and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
Download or read book Henrietta s War written by Joyce Dennys and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B, who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely what she thinks of him; the terrifyingly efficient Mrs Savernack, who relishes the opportunity to sit on umpteen committees and boss everyone around; flighty, flirtatious Faith who is utterly preoccupied with the latest hats and flashing her shapely legs; and then there's Charles, Henrietta's hard-working husband who manages to sleep through a bomb landing in their neighbour's garden. With life turned upside down under the shadow of war, Henrietta chronicles the dramas, squabbles and loyal friendships that unfold in her affectionate letters to her 'dear childhood friend' Robert. Warm, witty and perfectly observed, Henrietta's War brings to life a sparkling community of determined troupers who pull together to fight the good fight with patriotic fervour and good humour. Henrietta's War is part of The Bloomsbury Group, a new library of books from the early twentieth-century chosen by readers for readers.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Women s Writing 1900 1950 written by Ashlie Sponenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.
Download or read book Zuleika Dobson written by Sir Max Beerbohm and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alas Poor Lady written by Rachel Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Las Bront fueron a Woolworths written by Rachel Ferguson and published by Siruela. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONDRES, AÑOS TREINTA. TRES HERMANAS CON UNA FANTASÍA DESBORDANTE. Una de las más divertidas y originales novelas de la literatura británica de entreguerras. «Una obra maravillosamente lograda sobre el poder de la imaginación». A. S. BYATT Aunque el mundo adulto se cierne sobre ellas, las tres hermanas Carne se resisten a marcar las fronteras entre la fantasía y la realidad. Deirdre, la mayor, trabaja como periodista; Katrine es una actriz principiante, y la joven Sheil aún tiene institutriz. Juntas llevan una vida al margen en su bohemio hogar londinense e, irreprimiblemente imaginativas, siguen inventando historias, tal y como han hecho desde niñas. Así ocurría con sus juguetes parlantes, y así sucede con su ficticia amistad con el juez Toddington del Tribunal Supremo. Sin embargo, al conocer Deirdre a la esposa del magistrado, se producirá un auténtico colapso. Y cuando la fantasía y la realidad choquen, ¿se desprenderán para siempre las hermanas Carne de sus invenciones infantiles?, ¿aceptarán Toddington y su mujer a esas chicas tan excéntricas como encantadoras?, ¿quién podrá asegurar si los juguetes hablan de verdad, si el juez usa pijamas de seda color lavanda o si, en efecto, las Brontë fueron de compras a Woolworths? Las Brontë fueron a Woolworths (1931) tuvo una extraordinaria acogida en el momento de su aparición y ha llegado a convertirse entre los lectores en uno de los más queridos clásicos de la narrativa inglesa de entreguerras.
Download or read book The Alchemy of Laughter written by G. Cavaliero and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-11-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only contemporary critical study to discuss the nature of comedy with exclusive reference to novels. It examines the comic styles of novelists from Fielding and Jane Austen to Waugh and Agnus Wilson, as well as less familiar writers such as Ronald Firbank and Sylvia Townsend Warner. Distinguishing between different kinds of humour, it shows how comedy works in practice under changing literary, social and environmental conditions, and is designed to interest academic and general readers equally.
Download or read book Charlotte Bront written by Amber K Regis and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontë’s first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts. This book brings the story of Charlotte Brontë’s legacy up to date, analysing the intriguing afterlives of characters such as Jane Eyre and Rochester in neo-Victorian fiction, cinema, television, the stage and, more recently, on the web. Taking a fresh look at 150 years of engagement with one of the best-loved novelists of the Victorian period, from obituaries to vlogs, from stage to screen, from novels to erotic makeovers, this book reveals the author’s diverse and intriguing legacy. Engagingly written and illustrated, the book will appeal to both scholars and general readers.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1960 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Download or read book Leonard and Virginia Woolf The Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism written by Helen Southworth and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-authored volume focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materials and new methodological frameworks to explore the relationships forged by the Woolfs
Download or read book Janeites written by Deidre Lynch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the phenomenon of the "Janeite"--The zealous reader and fan of Jane Austen whose devotion to her novels has been frequently invoked and often derided by the critical establishment. The text asks what Janeites do and explores the myriad appropriations of Austen.
