biography
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The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
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The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
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The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
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The Gurneys of Earlham (2 volumes)
- £50.00
- The two-volume account of the extraordinary Quaker banking family from Norfolk that included Elizabeth Fry and the abolitionist Thomas Fowell Buxton, by famed Victorian writer Augustus Hare (1834-1903). Frontispieces and 30 illustrations.
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The House of Mitford
- £10.00
- The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.' A rare glimpse of the tangled undergrowth of English snobbery, prejudice and reactionary politics' New York Times 'A fine group portrait of a truly remarkable tribe' Atlantic Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second…
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The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
- £14.00
- Families are societies in miniature.' The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the…
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The Life and Times of ‘England’s Patriot King’ William the Fourth, with a brief memoir of HM Queen Adelaide
- £160.00
- Biography of King William IV and his Queen Adelaide, published in 1831, the year of his coronation. He would of course die in 1837, succeeded by his niece, the young Victoria.
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The Life of Charlemagne (Folio)
- £18.00
- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts…
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The Life of Kathleen Ferrier, by her sister
- £20.00
- During her lifetime Kathleen Ferrier both as a person & a musicain evoked world-wide admiration & affection. These feeling persisted after her early death, so many people wanted to know more about her life & work. Her sister Winifred who encouraged her in the early years in Lancashire & her…
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The Life of Nicholas Ridley, sometime Bishop of London
- £120.00
- Doctor Nicholas Ridley was an English Bishop of London and one of the martyrs burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions due to his teachings and support of Lady Jane Grey. Ridley is remembered in commemoration within the calendar of saints, along with Hugh Latimer, in some parts of…
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The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robt Sanderson
- £50.00
- Izaak Walton is best known today for The compleat Angler (first published in 1653). He was celebrated in his lifetime for his biographies, however, with the first on John Donne published in 1640 and Bishop Sanderson in 1678 (5 years before his death). Three at least of them were anglers…
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The Man Who Was George Smiley
- £20.00
- After a period following the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks has hit an all-time low, John le Carr s intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le…
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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
- £30.00
- Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a…
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the secrets of Britain’s greatest dynasty
- £25.00
- Tracy Borman's passion for the Tudor period shines forth from the pages of this fascinatingly detailed book, which vividly illuminates what went on behind the scenes at the Tudor court.' Alison Weir 'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor…
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The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
- £15.00
- A rich family archive reveals the incredible lives and loves of two sisters who captivated EuropeÕs intelligentsia When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget…
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The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
- Add to basket
-
The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
- Add to basket
-
The Girl in Rose: Haydn’s Last Love
- £14.00
- Rebecca Schroeter was an attractive and educated Scottish heiress who always had a weakness for musicians, as they did for her. 'My dearest love', Haydn called her. 'Beautiful', 'amiable' and 'a young lady of fashion', Rebecca was also independently minded and determined. She fell for her charismatic German music master,…
- Add to basket
-
The Gurneys of Earlham (2 volumes)
- £50.00
- The two-volume account of the extraordinary Quaker banking family from Norfolk that included Elizabeth Fry and the abolitionist Thomas Fowell Buxton, by famed Victorian writer Augustus Hare (1834-1903). Frontispieces and 30 illustrations.
- Add to basket
-
The House of Mitford
- £10.00
- The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.' A rare glimpse of the tangled undergrowth of English snobbery, prejudice and reactionary politics' New York Times 'A fine group portrait of a truly remarkable tribe' Atlantic Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second…
- Add to basket
-
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
- £14.00
- Families are societies in miniature.' The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations: George, one of Australia's leading painters; his talented composer-conductor son Constant; and grandson Kit, who managed the…
- Add to basket
-
The Life and Times of ‘England’s Patriot King’ William the Fourth, with a brief memoir of HM Queen Adelaide
- £160.00
- Biography of King William IV and his Queen Adelaide, published in 1831, the year of his coronation. He would of course die in 1837, succeeded by his niece, the young Victoria.
- Add to basket
-
The Life of Charlemagne (Folio)
- £18.00
- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts…
- Add to basket
-
The Life of Kathleen Ferrier, by her sister
- £20.00
- During her lifetime Kathleen Ferrier both as a person & a musicain evoked world-wide admiration & affection. These feeling persisted after her early death, so many people wanted to know more about her life & work. Her sister Winifred who encouraged her in the early years in Lancashire & her…
- Add to basket
-
The Life of Nicholas Ridley, sometime Bishop of London
- £120.00
- Doctor Nicholas Ridley was an English Bishop of London and one of the martyrs burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions due to his teachings and support of Lady Jane Grey. Ridley is remembered in commemoration within the calendar of saints, along with Hugh Latimer, in some parts of…
- Add to basket
-
The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robt Sanderson
- £50.00
- Izaak Walton is best known today for The compleat Angler (first published in 1653). He was celebrated in his lifetime for his biographies, however, with the first on John Donne published in 1640 and Bishop Sanderson in 1678 (5 years before his death). Three at least of them were anglers…
- Add to basket
-
The Man Who Was George Smiley
- £20.00
- After a period following the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks has hit an all-time low, John le Carr s intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le…
- Add to basket
-
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
- £30.00
- Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a…
- Add to basket
-
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the secrets of Britain’s greatest dynasty
- £25.00
- Tracy Borman's passion for the Tudor period shines forth from the pages of this fascinatingly detailed book, which vividly illuminates what went on behind the scenes at the Tudor court.' Alison Weir 'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor…
- Add to basket
-
The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
- £15.00
- A rich family archive reveals the incredible lives and loves of two sisters who captivated EuropeÕs intelligentsia When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget…
- Add to basket