Download or read book The Life story of Charlotte de la Tr moille written by Mary Catherine Rowsell and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Charlotte de La Tr mo lle the Notorious Countess of Derby written by Sandy Riley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Parliamentarian described his feelings towards Charlotte de La Trémoïlle when he wrote in the journal the Parliamentary Scout “three women ruined the Kingdom Eve, The Queen and the Countess of Derby”. This historical biography uses the letters found in the Chateau at Thouars and preserved in the French National Archive in Paris to piece together an account of her ideas and actions. Eyewitness writings are used to describe her activities during the siege by Parliamentary forces of the Royalist Lathom House. Following the end of the siege, she was exiled to the Isle of Man. A Huguenot, Charlotte lived at a time of religious and political upheaval in both France and England. She was related by birth and marriage to European royalty and aristocracy. She was the only woman sequestered by the Parliament of Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II promised her the position of Governess to his children.

Download or read book Bitter Greens written by Kate Forsyth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Full of palace intrigue, dark magic, romance, and lush, evocative descriptions, this is historical fiction at its finest.” —Library Journal, starred review The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent, she is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens . . . After Margherita’s father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, the famous muse of the artist Tiziano, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl. Locked away in a tower, Margherita sings in the hope that someone will hear her. One day, a young man does. Award-winning author Kate Forsyth braids together the stories of Margherita, Selena, and Charlotte-Rose, the woman who penned Rapunzel as we now know it, to create a sumptuous historical novel and a loving tribute to the imagination of one remarkable woman. “Captivating.” —Kirkus Reviews “An absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.” —Jennifer Chiaverini, New York Times–bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival “A complex, dazzling achievement.” —Susan Vreeland, New York Times–bestselling author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany and Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Download or read book The Book Monthly written by James Milne and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publisher and Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Download or read book Shadow Echo Me written by Joyce Elaine Wiggin-Robbins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow Echo Me The Life and Times of Thomas Wiggin, 16011666 The Making of American Values by Joyce Wiggin-Robbins Thomas Wiggin, captain and governor in Colonial New Hampshire, was an accumulation of moral values, religious principals, political and European conflicts, and all the desires typical for a man of his era. With a heritage as a son of the clergy, being well educated, with a history of advantageous networking, Thomas would become the example of the discipline and strength needed to establish a home in the New England wilderness of the seventeenth century. Turning his back to a cultured, established, and predictable life in England, he chose to bring a wife and carve a life out of the wilderness and bring up his children in a place of wide-open opportunity and freedoms. It was men like Thomas Wiggin who became the backbone of the future United States of America.

Download or read book Charlotte Delbo written by Ghislaine Dunant and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, Charlotte Delbo and 229 other women were deported to a station with no name, which they later learned was Auschwitz. Arrested for resisting the Nazi occupation of Paris, Delbo was sent to the camps, enduring both Auschwitz and Ravensbrück for twenty-seven months. There, she, her fellow deportees, and millions of others were subjected to slave labor and nearly succumbed to typhus, dysentery, and hunger. She sustained herself by reciting Molière and resolved to someday write a book about herself and her fellow deportees, a stunning work called None of Us Will Return. After the camps, Delbo devoted her life to the art of writing and the duty of witnessing, fiercely advocating for the power of the arts to testify against despotism and tyranny. Ghislaine Dunant's unforgettable biography of Delbo, La vie retrouvée (2016), captivated French readers and was awarded the Prix Femina. Now translated into English for the first time, Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed depicts Delbo's lifelong battles as a working-class woman, as a survivor, as a leftist who broke from the Communist Party, and most of all, as a writer whose words compelled others to see.

Download or read book The Literary Year book written by Frederick George Aflalo and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women All On Fire written by Alison Plowden and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using personal accounts from both Royalist and Parliamentarian supporters to reveal the untold story of the women of the English Civil War, Alison Plowden illustrates how the conflict affected the lives of women and how they coped with unfamiliar responsibilities. Some displayed a courage so far above their sex as to surprise and disconcert their men. The Royalists included Queen Henrietta, who went abroad to raise money for the cause, and Mary Bankes who held Corfe Castle for the king with her daughters, heaving stones and hot embers over the battlements at the attacking Roundheads. On the opposing side, Lady Brillia Harley guarded Brampton Bryan Castle in Herefordshire against the Royalists and Anne Fairfax, wife of Cromwell's northern general, who was taken prisoner by the Duke of Newcastle's troops after Adwalton Moor. This is a fascinating look at the little reported, yet valient actions, of the women caught up in this tumultuous age.

Download or read book Who s who written by Henry Robert Addison and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."

Download or read book Charlotte Temple written by Mrs. Rowson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin written by Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Publishers Circular and Booksellers Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Story of the Nursery written by Magdalen King-Hall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958, this reconstruction of the lives of young children of nursery age is an excursion into the past, from the Middle Ages to the opening years of the twentieth century. It tells of the methods, often extraordinary to our ideas, by which they were brought up from babyhood to about seven years old, their clothes, diet, the fearsome remedies that were inflicted on them in illness, their toys, games, books and first steps in education. It shows how the pristine simplicity of the child’s nature, which hardly alters throughout the centuries, was moulded by the pressure of the adult society around them into some semblance of the accepted contemporary type. This story of the nursery is not only about young children, but about their parents too. There are parents in it who are stern, harsh, even cruel, and many more loving and careful ones; but one thing strikes us in these parents of former times: there is an air of unassailable confidence and certainty about them that the modern parent, versed in child psychology, would find it hard to achieve. As one seventeenth-century worthy put it, ‘For that which always happens in a concerne so universall as breeding children must needs be provided for by a traditionell method of proceeding.’

Download or read book The History of Childhood written by Llyod deMause and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of childhood that reveals startling views of life in Europe and America during the past 2000 years. This book documents the lives of former children who were abused. It places child abuse today into the context of what was routinely inflicted upon