Download or read book The Hardie Inheritance written by Anne Melville and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third novel in the Hardie series sees Grace Hardie choosing to stay out if the marriage race. Instead, she devotes her time to her work as a sculptor, living in Greystones, the mansion she has inherited but can no longer afford to maintain in the style it deserves. Her mother and brother are the only companions in her narrow existence. Then, one summer day in 1932, four uninvited guests arrive from the outside world. Lord Rupert Beverley has discovered that the Hardies are linked to his family by marriage. Andy Frith, the gardener's son who was Grace's childhood sweetheart, returns from France to see his dying father. Ellis Faraday, the son of the architect who designed Greystones, calls for permission to photograph his father's first major work. And with him he brings Trish, his charming young daughter. The arrival of the four together will change Grace's life for unexpected happiness, wealth and fulfilment follow. But so too do family squabbles and difficult decisions about who is to become the Greystones heir. The Hardie Inheritance, the last instalment in the Hardie series was first published in 1990.
Download or read book The Hardie Inheritance written by Anne Melville and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the sun rose higher in the sky there was nothing to suggest that 23rd July 1932 was to be anything other than the most ordinary of days. But, for Grace Hardie, this one day changes everything. Grace Hardie has been happy in her family home of Greystones. Alongside her mother and brother, she lives a quiet life of sculpting. But her beloved Greystones is beginning to show signs of neglect. Unable to afford the maintenance of the sprawling estate, Grace begins to worry about who will care for her birthright when she's gone. That is until one sunny day in July when four uninvited visitors come to call. Will these guests bring trouble and heartache to Greystones or provide the solitary Grace with happiness and love? Filled with old friends and new faces, The Hardie Inheritance is the final instalment in the Hardie Family Series. PRAISE FOR ANNE MELVILLE 'Fast and meaty...with pain and grief fairly balances with hope and joy in roughly equal proportions' - British Book News 'Exciting, the characters lively and the sense of period meticulous' - Irish Times 'This romping historical epic is fluent and entertaining' - Lancashire Evening Post
Download or read book The Hardie Inheritance written by Anne Melville and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hardie Inheritance written by Anne Melville and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The House of Hardie written by Anne Melville and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume One of the griping Victorian family saga. Midge and Gordon Hardie were the children of a respected Oxford wine merchant, but no matter how charming his upper-crust customers were, the Hardies remained no more than prosperous tradespeople. Midge wanted more. She wanted the rewards that her intelligence should bring, and the sensual pleasures that an affair with a young aristocrat seemed to offer. Gordon's love was botany and travel. He yearned to break free of the cosiness of Oxford and travel to Tibet and China, in search of the rare specimens that seemed to stand for all the distinction he missed in his background. The House of Hardie, first published in 1987, is a sparkling story of Victorian love, class, ambition and loss - a gripping start to Anne Melville's fine saga of a British family's fortunes.
Download or read book Debutante written by Anne Melville and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four debutants find friendship as they seek love in a time of war in this WWII-era historical romance by the author of the Lorimer Family novels. England, 1939. Aristocratic families are preparing to present their daughters as debutantes, introducing them to society through a season of elegant parties. Bidding childhood farewell, the debutantes are thrust into a world of dancing, gossip, and young gentlemen, glamorous but fraught with rivalry. Ronnie, Peggy, Isabelle, and Anne could not be more different; four girls from four different worlds. Yet when their lives converge, they begin to rely on each other in ways they could never have imagined. But as World War II quickly approaches, it soon becomes clear that this season will be unlike any before. The world is changing, and all four young ladies will soon find their lives irrevocably changed along with it.
Download or read book The Case for Left Wing Nationalism written by Stephen Maxwell and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning four politically and socially tumultuous decades, Stephen Maxwell's writings explore the origins and development of the modern Scottish Nationalist movement. As an instrumental member of the SNP and a life-long socialist, Maxwell's work provides an engaging contemporary insight into the debate over Scottish independence, setting out a clear ideological and practical arguments for a socially just Scotland. The Case for Left Wing Nationalism - Maxwell's seminal 1981 pamphlet - considers the historical and cultural roots of Scottish national identity and stresses the importance of a realistic understanding of the past as the basis of a more prosperous, independent future. It concludes with Hugh MacDiarmid's prescription for a Scottish renaissance: Not Traditions - Precedents.
Download or read book John Hardie of Thornhill and His Family written by Lillian Galt Martin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descendants of John Hardie, who emigrated from Scotland in 1817, settling in Alabama. Descendants lived Alabama, Louisiana and else- where. Includes the Hall, Gorman, Keenan and other related families.
Download or read book Inheritance written by Dennis Friedman and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In exploring Royal dynamics, Inheritance sheds light on problems found in any familyOn its first publication in the 1990s, Dennis Friedman's Inheritance caused a furor in England as he traced the many problems of the Royal family as it was then back to Queen Victoria's nursery, unveiling a host of psychodramas played out against a privileged background of English palaces and Scottish castles. In a post-Diana age, the arrival of a new Prince George to the seemingly stable and blissfully happy William and Kate seems to refute Fiedman's thesis—but what of the notoriously wayward Prince Harry? Many questions are raised in this book addressing the complex and turbulent royal relationships, perhaps the most fundamental being the rigid and traditional royal upbringing which still awaits the baby prince. As the royal line is followed down the generations no direct descendent is overlooked and no issue is sidestepped.
Download or read book Southern Outcast written by David Brown and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper -- the first to appear in more than forty years -- David Brown provides a fresh and nuanced portrait of this self-styled reformer, exploring anew Helper's motivation for writing his inflammatory book. Brown places Helper in a perspective that shows how the society in which he lived influenced his thinking, beginning with Helper's upbringing in North Carolina, his move to California at the height of the Californian gold rush, his developing hostility toward nonwhites within the United States, and his publication of The Impending Crisis of the South. Helper's book paints a picture of a region dragged down by the institution of slavery and displays surprising concern for the fate of American slaves. It sold 140,000 copies, perhaps rivaled only by Uncle Tom's Cabin in its impact. The author argues that Helper never wavered in his commitment to the South, though his book's devastating critique made him an outcast there, playing a crucial role in the election of Lincoln and influencing the outbreak of war. As his career progressed after the war, Helper's racial attitudes grew increasingly intolerant. He became involved in various grand pursuits, including a plan to link North and South America by rail, continually seeking a success that would match his earlier fame. But after a series of disappointments, he finally committed suicide. Brown reconsiders the life and career of one of the antebellum South's most controversial and misunderstood figures. Helper was also one of the rare lower-class whites who recorded in detail his economic, political, and social views, thus affording a valuable window into the world of nonslaveholding white southerners on the eve of the Civil War. His critique of slavery provides an important challenge to dominant paradigms stressing consensus among southern whites, and his development into a racist illustrates the power and destructiveness of the prejudice that took hold of the South in the late nineteenth century, as well as the wider developments in American society at the time.
Download or read book Marlowe s Counterfeit Profession written by Patrick Gerard Cheney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlowe was the first writer to the translate the Amores, and thus the first to make the Ovidian cursus literally his own.
Download or read book Keir Hardie written by Fred Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978. This book is an essay in labour biography. Labour leaders of the nineteenth century are often enigmatic personalities, and James Keir Hardie is no exception. The main purpose of this study is to penetrate the heart of the enigma that is Kier Hardie. Why does he remain so puzzling? The author explores Hardie’s childhood and his interest and involvement within the Labour Party. This title will be of interest to students of politics and history.
Download or read book Mendelian Inheritance in Man written by Victor A. McKusick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-06-29 with total page 1728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth edition of this classic reference work includes: - More than 2,000 new entries - A total of more than 9,000 entries - New features and enhancement of the familiar old features - Mapping information on more than 4,000 genes of known function - Information on specific point mutations responsible for more than 700 genetic disorders or neoplasms Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM) is a genetic knowledgebase that serves clinical medicine and biomedical research, including the Human Genome Project. It aims to be comprehensive (not only complete, but also collated, integrated, and interpreted), authoritative (not only accurate but also sound in its interpretations and judgements), and timely (not only up-to-date but also historically dimensioned). From a review of the eleventh edition, Reproductive Toxicology: "Even the convenience of computer-based forms of MIM cannot eliminate the need for MIM in book form. The preface provides a wonderful synopsis of human genetics. The information contained in this text serves as a concise review for those with a genetics background." From a review of the tenth edition, New England Journal of Medicine: " Victor McKusick] has been for all these years the shepherd of the development of the field of clinical genetics]. Perhaps his most important pragmatic achievement has been the 10 editions of Mendelian Inheritance in Man, which rapidly became and has remained the principal source of information on inherited diseases for all clinical geneticists. "In addition to the erudite entries in the books, the references given with each description represent a magnificent bibliography of clinical genetics. With McKusick's leadership and continued interest in gene mapping, the book also rep-resents an important compen-dium of the location of genes on specific chromosomes. "The book is a magnificent security blanket for the clinical geneticist and should be in the libraries not only of these specialists, but also of all others who see patients with diseases that have genetic components."
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Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.
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