Download or read book The Whitechapel Girl written by Gilda O'Neill and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this enthralling Victorian drama, a young woman tries to escape poverty in London’s East End as Jack the Ripper stalks the streets. Ettie Wilkins must get out of Whitechapel. As her mother sinks deeper into alcoholism, the volatile lodger sharing their slum turns his attentions to Ettie. So when debonair Professor Jacob Protsky picks Ettie out of the crowd, she is determined to seize her chance. Despite a chorus of warnings, Ettie goes to live with Protsky in Bow to assist him with his magic tricks. But when Ettie befriends the mysterious Celia Tressing, she soon finds herself increasingly worried by events in Whitechapel. A series of gruesome murders and whispers of Jack the Ripper have shaken even that resilient community . . . Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale.
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Download or read book Whitechapel Girl written by Gilda O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Whitechapel is hard... As hard as the characters you find there and Ettie Wilkins knows this better than anyone. Her mother is a raging alcoholic who lives with a violent lodger who often turns his attentions to Ettie herself once her mother has fallen into yet another gin induced stupor. Finally, the lodgers wondering hands and violent outbreaks and the one-room slum which makes up her life becomes too unbearable and Ettie Wilkins must get out of Whitechapel. When Ettie and her friend May head to the penny gaffs, one of life's few pleasures available to them, escape from the dirt and the pain of Whitechapel suddenly seems possible. Amongst the cheap sideshow of horrors and magic, Ettie meets the debonair Professor Jacob Protsky. Picking Ettie out of the crowd as his muse for his spiritual encounters, could Jacob be her ticket to a new life? Despite protestations from May and her older brother Billy, Ettie seizes her chance and goes to live with Protsky who soon transforms her into a lovely young lady. Using Ettie has his way into the salons of rich Londoners, excited by the artistry and showmanship of fake spiritualism, Jacob turns Ettie into the focus of his performances as 'the silent beauty.' One evening at an important s�ance, Ettie spots a young woman in the audience: Celia Tressing who looks as lost and unhappy as Ettie. Although she has escaped her life of drudgery in Whitechapel and Ettie now has fine clothes and resembles a lady, she misses her friends and family. Soon Ettie is giving private readings to the troubled young Celia, whilst Ettie herself is increasingly worried by news from Whitechapel: a series of gruesome murders has ravished the community, and foreigners, such as Jacob, are prime suspects... Whitechapel Girl is a chilling tale that explores the harsh realities of life and the dark goings-on that haunt the community. Praise for Gilda O'Neill '[Gives a] voice to memories of a changing East End' - The Guardian 'A shocking book which, for once, should dispel the myth that life in the East End was one long knees-up' - Daily Express 'O'Neill chronicles the filth and poverty with leery aplomb, then sobers things up with sharp social commentary' - The Scotsman Gilda O'Neill (1951-2010) took three university degrees and was awarded an honorary doctorate for her work on the East End. In 1990 O'Neill began writing full-time. She published thirteen novels and six works of non-fiction. She also broadcasted, gave talks and wrote articles about east London history. She tragically died in 2010 from a sudden illness.
Download or read book A City Girl written by Margaret Harkness and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote a letter to the English novelist and journalist Margaret Harkness, expressing his appreciation for her first novel, A City Girl: A Realistic Story, calling it “a small work of art.” A City Girl was one of many slum novels set in the East End of London in the 1880s. It tells the story of a young East Ender, Nelly Ambrose, who is seduced and abandoned by a middle-class bureaucrat. After the birth of her child and betrayal by her family, Nelly is rescued by two outside forces: the Salvation Army and a sympathetic local man, George, who wants to marry her despite her “fallen” status. While Nelly’s relative passivity and social ignorance distinguish her from contemporary New Woman heroines, Harkness’s sympathy for Nelly’s position and refusal to judge her morally make A City Girl a fascinating and original novel. This Broadview Edition includes contemporary reviews of A City Girl along with historical documents on London’s East End, fallen women in late-Victorian fiction, and reform organizations for East End women.
Download or read book The Armstrong Girl written by Cathy Le Feuvre and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885 Victorian England was scandalized by a court case that lifted the veil on prostitution and the sex trade. In the Old Bailey dock stood W.T. Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, which had recently published a series of articles on the sex trade; Rebecca Jarrett, a reformed brothel keeper; and the second-in-command of The Salvation Army, Bramwell Booth. They were accused of abducting a thirteen-year-old girl, Eliza Armstrong, apparently buying her for the purpose of prostitution. In fact they had done this as a sensational exposé of the trade in young girls. The scandal triggered a massive petition and ultimately resulted in the raising of the British age of consent from thirteen to sixteen. Today human trafficking is once again making world headlines - as are recent calls to lower the age of consent. Eliza's story is a thrilling account of what can be achieved by those brave enough to believe that change is not only possible but has to come.
Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Claas Kirchhelle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas Kirchhelle explores Harrison’s avant-garde upbringing, Quakerism, and how animal welfare debates were linked to concerns about the wider ethical and environmental trajectories of post-war Britain. Breaking the myth of Harrison as a one-hit wonder, Kirchhelle reconstructs Harrison’s 46 years of campaigning and the rapid transformation of welfare politics and science during this time. Exacerbated by Harrison’s own actions, the decades after 1964 saw a polarisation of animalpolitics, a professionalisation of British activism, and the rise of a new animal welfare science. Harrison’s belief in incremental reform allowed her to form ties to leading scientists but alienated her from more radical campaigners. Many of her 1964 demands gradually became part of mainstream politics. However, farm animal welfare’s increasing marketisation has also led to a relative divorce from the wider agenda of social improvement that Harrison once bore witness to. This is the first book to cast light on the interlinked histories of British farm animal welfare activism, science, and legislation. Its unique scope allows it to go beyond existing accounts of modern British animal welfare and will be of interest to those interested in animal welfare, environmentalism, and the behavioural sciences.
Download or read book Routledge Revivals History Workshop Series written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 4146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1975 and 1991, this set reissues 13 volumes that originally appeared as part of the History Workshop Series. This series of books, which grew out of the journal of the same name, advocated ‘history from below’ and examined numerous, often social, issues from the perspectives of ordinary people. In the words of founder Raphael Samuel, the aim was to turn historical research and writing into ‘a collaborative enterprise’, via public gatherings outside of a traditional academic setting, that could be used to support activism and social justice as well as informing politics. Some of the topics examined in the set include: mineral workers, rural radicalism, and the lives and occupations of villagers in the nineteenth century; working class association; the development of left-wing workers theatre and the changing attitudes to mass culture across the twentieth century; the changing fortunes of the East End at the turn of the century; the position of women from the nineteenth century to the present; the miners’ strike of 1984-5; the social and political images of late-twentieth century London; and a three volume analysis of the myriad facets of English patriotism. This set will be of interest to students of history, sociology, gender and politics.
Download or read book A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813 1912 V Z and addenda written by Algernon Graves and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History written by Lieven Ameel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History explores a variety of geographical and cultural contexts to examine what literary texts, grasped as material objects and reflections on urban materialities, have to offer for urban history. The contributing writers’ approach to literary narratives and materialities in urban history is summarised within the conceptualisation ‘materiality in/of literature’: the way in which literary narratives at once refer to the material world and actively partake in the material construction of the world. This book takes a geographically multipolar and multidisciplinary approach to discuss cities in the UK, the US, India, South Africa, Finland, and France whilst examining a wide range of textual genres from the novel to cartoons, advertising copy, architecture and urban planning, and archaeological writing. In the process, attention is drawn to narrative complexities embedded within literary fiction and to the dialogue between narratives and historical change. The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History has three areas of focus: literary fiction as form of urban materiality, literary narratives as social investigations of the material city, and the narrating of silenced material lives as witnessed in various narrative sources.
Download or read book The Victorian Studies Reader written by Kelly Boyd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key pieces on Victorian history, society and culture. The book draws on new trends in looking at the Victorian Age and includes sections on: periodization politics consumerism intellectual life sexuality empire The Victorian Studies Reader is a rich resource, essential for all those studying this important period of history.
Download or read book The Flora Maguire Mysteries written by Anita Davison and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 2015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the addictive Flora Maguire cozy mystery series from bestseller Anita Davison Perfect for fans of T.E. Kinsey, Verity Bright, and Helena Dixon This boxset contains the complete Flora Maguire Mystery series Death on Board Death at the Abbey Death of a Suffragette Death by the Thames Death on a Train Death on Board NEW YORK,1900 Young governess Flora Maguire is on her way home from America on the maiden voyage of the S.S. Minneapolis with her young charge Eddy, Viscount Trent, when she discovers a dead body. Unconvinced when the death is pronounced an accident, Flora starts asking questions, but following threats, a near drowning and a second murder, the hunt is on for a killer. Time is running out as the Minneapolis approaches the English coast. Death at the Abbey When Flora Maguire receives an alarming telegram informing her of her father’s tragic death in a riding accident, she races back from London to her childhood home. But when Flora and her new husband, Bunny, get to Cleeve Abbey – where she was once Governess to Eddy, Viscount Trent, and her father was butler to Earl Trent – it’s all is not well. Flora’s intention was to bury her father next to Lily, her mother, who sadly passed away when Flora was a small child. But it turns out that a mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Lily’s final resting place. Death of a Suffragette When the body of a London socialite, and leading light of the burgeoning women’s suffrage movement, is found outside The Grenadier public house in London’s fashionable Knightsbridge, Flora Maguire can’t resist investigating. Mysterious letters are discovered in the victim’s belongings, including strange links to the foreign office. But why do the clues keep coming back to the assassination of a Baltic king? As Flora closes in on the killer, it soon becomes clear she is no longer safe in London, but – as her husband Bunny rushes to be by her side – will he be the one to save her, or will she have to find her own way out? Death by the Thames Flora Maguire’s life is perfect – a beautiful home in Belgravia teeming with servants, a loving husband, and new baby Arthur to enjoy. But when she is invited to tour St. Philomena’s Children’s Hospital in a deprived area near London’s newly-built Tower Bridge, she is shocked. Because there she uncovers a scandal with a dark heart – poor children are going missing from the hospital. The police seem either unable or unwilling to investigate, so Flora teams up with the indomitable matron of the hospital, Alice Finch, to try to get to the bottom of it. Soon Flora is immersed in the seedy, dangerous underbelly of criminal London, and time is running out to save the children. Will they get to them in time, or was their fate decided the day they were born... Death on a Train 1905 London is a heady mix of unimaginable wealth and simmering political tensions, and with war looming, all Flora Maguire wants is to keep her family safe. But when a body is found on a train bound for Paddington and her beloved charge Viscount Edward Trent is accused of murder, she's determined not to leave the investigation to the police. Flora has trodden the path of amateur sleuth before, but with so much at stake, this time it’s personal. Slowly the body of the victim starts giving up its secrets, and Flora and her husband Bunny become mired in a murky world of spies, communists and fraudsters. And with the police more sure than ever that Edward is their murderer, Flora must work fast, if she’s going to save him, and ensure a murderer doesn’t remain on the loose!
Download or read book Murder at Paddington written by Anita Davison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1905 London is a heady mix of unimaginable wealth and simmering political tensions, and with war looming Flora Maguire wants to keep her family safe. So when her beloved charge Viscount Edward Trent is accused of murder, she's determined not to leave the investigation to the police. Flora has trodden the path of amateur sleuth before, but with so much at stake, this time it's personal. Slowly the body of the victim found stabbed on a train bound for Paddington starts giving up its secrets, and Flora and her husband Bunny become mired in a murky world of spies, communists and fraudsters. And with the police more sure than ever that Edward is their murderer, Flora must work fast to keep him safe. Anita Davison's compulsive story-telling, combined with the irresistible mix of historical drama and gripping mystery, make this unputdownable.
Download or read book The Water Tower Books 1 3 written by Chris Vobe and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three books in Chris Vobe's 'The Water Tower', a spellbinding series of literary fiction, now available in one volume! Reunion: When journalist Adam Chapman returns to the village of his childhood, what he finds at first is an English idyll, untouched and unspoiled. But when plans to demolish the old Water Tower are announced, the perfect world of Little Bassington is fractured. Battle lines are drawn and long-buried secrets are on the cusp of being unearthed. As Adam struggles to navigate his own past, he finds himself drawn into an unexpected circle of acquaintances – including a woman from the Library to whom each of them will becoming inextricably linked. In the captivating first volume of the series, facets of love and loss intertwine, resulting in a raw and uncompromising tale that throws a spotlight on the complex dynamics of a community grappling with profound change. Remembrance: Election fever has gripped the village of Little Bassington and the race for the Town Hall has intensified – with the fate of the Water Tower at stake. Long-buried feelings are rising to the surface, painful heartaches and disquieting realities look set to endure... and a decades-old secret, forgotten and left to gather dust, is discovered at Orchard House. As journalist Adam Chapman strikes a deal with the devil, librarian Victoria Kendall discovers that some choices remain inescapable. Steeped in themes of loyalty and allegiance, the second book in Chris Vobe’s gripping five-volume epic serves as a candidate exploration of the way we live with grief. Revelation: As dark clouds loom over the village of Little Bassington, the secrets of one woman's hidden past are finally laid bare – propelling journalist Adam Chapman towards a watershed moment in his life. With the community left reeling, more than one resident finds themselves out in the cold. Elsewhere, Victoria Kendall is forced to navigate a high-stakes political game of cat-and-mouse as the sinister figure of Robert Grainger stands poised to play his hand. For those embroiled in the fight to save the Water Tower, destiny is calling. Packed with unexpected, immersive twists, the thrilling third instalment of ‘The Water Tower’ offers an emotional examination of redemption and the enduring power of love.
Download or read book Revelation written by Chris Vobe and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-05-07 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark clouds are hanging over Little Bassington. Winter is here. A storm is coming. As the secrets of one woman's hidden past are laid bare, journalist Adam Chapman reaches a crossroads in his life. The devil is at the door. This time, there will be no escape. With the community reeling, more than one resident finds themselves left out in the cold. Elsewhere, a childhood tragedy is set to be revisited. For those embroiled in the fight to save the Water Tower, destiny is calling. The past is catching up with them. Truths will out. Meanwhile, as divisions deepen and the ties that bind are torn asunder, newly-elected Councillor Victoria Kendall is propelled into a game of cat-and-mouse with her political opponents amidst a media storm that threatens to engulf the village. Decision day is looming. The war of attrition is over. Archangel are coming. And, watching from the sidelines, Robert Grainger stands poised to play his hand. As the cracks begin to show, expectant eyes and hopeful hearts await a sign, an omen... ...and a revelation. The third in Chris Vobe's five-volume epic, 'The Water Tower' is a raw and uncompromising tale of love, loyalty and allegiance, and offers a candid exploration of the way we deal with loss.
Download or read book Sorrows of the Moon written by Iqbal Ahmed and published by Coldstream Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lights Of London written by Gilda O'Neill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, dramatic saga of murder and obsession set against the glittering backdrop of 19th-Century London. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Donna Douglas. What readers are saying about Lights of London 'What a lovely story...it totally had me gripped from beginning to end' - 5 STARS 'Brilliant - could not put it down' - 5 STARS 'Wow...a must read' - 5 STARS ************************************************************************************ AS A NEW CENTURY DAWNS, WILL HER LOT BE HARDSHIP OR HAPPINESS? The lights of London seem bright to Kitty Miller, but their sparkle soon fades when she finds herself alone and destitute, at the mercy of those that inhabit the fog-bound streets and alleyways of the East End. When the feisty young prostitute, Tibs Tyler, takes her under her wing, the two girls, one dark, one fair, set themselves up as a music hall act. As they desperately try to break free from Tibs's violent pimp, and to avoid the educated and wealthy yet sinister Dr Tressing, they also hope to make a new life for themselves as the new century breaks.
Download or read book Public Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
