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PaperbackEngels9781784705541
22-8-2016
In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781784872441
31-8-2017
This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781784702304
23-2-2017
Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves to a town in the North of England where she knows no one. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099455646
4-3-2004
What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic situations. That's women's work. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099593973
25-2-2016
‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099449287
4-3-2004
Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099455578
7-10-2004
Traces the lives of eight women - Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Florence Nightingale, Emily Davies, Josephine Butler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman - each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099455639
7-10-2004
Rowena wants a baby. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident. The battle for Christabel has begun. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099581925
27-2-2014
Only one person knows what happened that day…Julia was the only person who knew what happened that day. But she didn’t tell the police. And then it was too late. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099507666
2-8-2007
Don and Louise's eighteen-year-old daughter Miranda has died in a sailing accident. While Louise takes steps to move on with her life, Don cannot come to terms with the chain of events that led to her death. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099472131
2-2-2006
What do Mrs H., Rachel, Edwina, Ida, Sarah, Dot, Chrissie have in common? This enthralling novel follows the ripples that go out into ordinary lives that have been changed by a shared experience, all connected by the same hospital clinic in a small Northern town. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099283775
3-10-2002
The bestselling author of Hidden Lives explores four marriages, including her own, in different times and societies to find the answer. In 1848 Mary Moffatt became the wife of the missionary and explorer David Livingstone - and her obedience and devotion eventually killed her. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099455585
4-3-2004
Angela Bradbury's 'Poor Mother' : delicate, humble, permanently disappointed, has made endless sacrifices for her family, for which they can never quite be grateful enough. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099478485
7-4-2005
London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No. 50, Wimpole Street. Subtly and compellingly, Lady's Maid gives voice to Elizabeth Wilson's untold story, her complex relationship with her mistress, Elizabeth Barrett, and her dramatic role in the most famous elopement in history. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099570530
5-1-2012
Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, seems a quiet, undemanding child. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099478522
7-4-2005
The attack on fifteen-year-old Joe Kennedy was particularly squalid and vicious. Sheila Armstrong's grandson Leo, usually a quiet, well-behaved boy, was found holding a knife. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099455622
7-10-2004
To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. But when Rosemary discovers these private papers she is enraged by her mother's distortions of the truth and proceeds to tell the story from her perspective. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099542094
3-2-2011
Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099496861
1-3-2007
Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099455592
4-3-2004
Rose Pendlebury has little in common with her Islington neighbours. But when Alice and Tony move in next door with their enchanting toddler Amy, Mrs Pendlebury begins to come out of her shell, as gradually her new neighbours undermine her traditional, cautious privacy. Meer