The English Girl

• Author : Margaret Leroy
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 05 December 2013

When seventeen-year-old Stella Whittaker is offered the chance to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna it's a dream-come-true, made possible by old family friends, Rainer and Marthe Kraus, who offer her a place to live. Seduced by the elegant beauty of the city, Stella explores the magnificent palaces, gardens and fashionable coffee houses, and after a chance meeting in an art gallery, falls in love with Harri Reznik, a young Jewish doctor. But as the threat of war

• Author : Caroline Waterman
• Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Release : 04 February 2023

This is a story of Spanish life at the time of Franco as seen through the eyes of a naïve young girl. Based on the author's personal experience, it is often amusing, sometimes tragic but always surprising, painting a picture of a way of life that has now gone for ever.

• Author : Beatrice Batty
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 2023

• Author : Beth Ellis
• Publisher : DigiCat
• Release : 04 September 2022

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah" by Beth Ellis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

• Author : Katherine Webb
• Publisher : Orion
• Release : 10 July 2018

Escape to 1950s Arabia with this epic tale from Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author, Katherine Webb. The English Girl is perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies, Kate Morton and Santa Montefiore. In a land full of secrets, you can make your own rules. Joan Seabrook has fulfilled her lifelong dream to travel to Arabia and has arrived in the ancient city of Muscat with her fiancé, Rory. Desperate to escape the pain of a personal tragedy, she longs to

• Author : Daniel Silva
• Publisher : Harper
• Release : 18 February 2014

One girl Seven days No second chances Madeline Hart is a rising star in British government: beautiful, intelligent, driven to succeed by an impoverished childhood. But she also has a dark secret: she is the lover of Prime Minister Jonathan Lancaster. When she disappears on the island of Corsica, it's clear her kidnappers know about the affair and intend to make the PM pay dearly for his sins. Fearful of a scandal that could destroy his career, Lancaster decides to

• Author : Ford Madox Ford
• Publisher : Delphi Classics
• Release : 17 July 2017

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘An English Girl by Ford Madox Ford - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Ford includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the

• Author : Anne RATHBONE
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 2023

• Author : Tessa Börner,Martin Börner
• Publisher : Hilary Borner
• Release : 04 February 2023

• Author : Judith Humphrey
• Publisher : Academica PressLlc
• Release : 04 February 2023

An analysis of the English girls' school story as a literary site that deeply challenges and subverts traditional societal constructions while providing images of liberation and self-creation for girls and women assesses the influence of factors ranging from war and sports to imperial decline and evolving notions of love.

• Author : Jane Potter
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 06 October 2005

Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much-maligned or at the very least ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers - many of whom are now virtually

• Author : Angela Woollacott
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 30 August 2001

Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage "home," seeking opportunities beyond those available to them in the Australian colonies or dominion. In tracing the experiences of these women, this volume reveals hitherto unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity.

• Author : Claudia Mitchell,Carrie Rentschler
• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• Release : 01 January 2016

Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks

• Author : Evelyn Piper
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release : 23 February 2016

After an evening with a movie star, a magazine editor is found murdered Shirley Kolp finds the movie star sleeping in the park. Even before he speaks a word, she recognizes Gavin More—a Hollywood A-lister reduced to spending the night on a New York park bench. Feeling compassionate, she invites him to come up to her apartment and get out of the rain—for a cup of coffee and a place to sleep, nothing more. Gavin has just bedded

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1897