Pengelly, R. ed.
John Ruskin: A Biographical Sketch
(Andrew Melrose, n.d).
Hardback. Covers slightly worn, spine darkened, otherwise very good. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-A5054
Keywords: Ruskin, John Ruskin, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, R. Ed. Pengelly, writers, authors
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Hickman, Katie.
Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
(Flamingo, 2000).
Paperback. Very good+. xxviii + 321pp. Order No. NSBK-C9955
Keywords: 0006387802, lives, Diplomatic Wives, life histories, life history, Britain, British, England, England, history, social biography, biographies, biographical, diplomacy, politics, women writers, overseas, postings, ambassadresses, ambassadors
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Hewins, Angela.
Mary, After the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl
(OUP, 1985).
Foreword by Paul Thompson. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xv + 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C5402
Keywords: 0192122428, Queens, Queen Mary, royalty, monarchs, monarchs, Hewins, Stratford, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, twentieth century, working class, working-class, women's history, Stratford upon Avon
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Whitney, Janet.
Elizabeth Fry: Quaker Heroine
(George G. Harrap, rpt., 1938).
Hardback. Newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, boards stained and worn, otherwise good. 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C11320
Keywords: 0405090722, prison, prison reform, Elizabeth Fry, philanthropy, Victorian, Quaker, women, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, jails, gaols, Quakers, biography, biographical, biographies, life history, life histories
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Monsarrat, Ann.
An Uneasy Victorian: Thackeray the Man, 1811-1863
(Cassell, 1980).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 461pp. Order No. NSBK-A12202
Keywords: 0304305561, Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors
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Finney, Brian.
The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century
(Faber and Faber, 1985).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A9679
Keywords: 0571133118, literature, literary, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, lives, life histories, life history, Britain, British, history, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
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Goldschmidt, Lucien and Schimmel, Herbert, eds.
Unpublished Correspondence of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec:
(Phaidon, 1969).
With an introduction and notes by Jean Adhemar and Theodore Reff. Hardback. Ex lib with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, cloth slightly faded, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A6338
Keywords: 0714813893, French, France, Europe, European, correspondence, letters, epistles, epistolary, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, unpublished, literature, writing, art, artists, Paris, painters, paintings, Taussat, Frenchman, Brussles, Berthe Sarrazin, Gascon, biography, biographical, life histories, life history, biography
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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Reynolds, M. E.
Memories of John Galsworthy:
(Robert Hale, 1936).
By his sister. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, rubbed and browned dustwrapper. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A10299
Keywords: B000I83NSU, John Galsworthy, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, writers, literature, authors, fiction, novels, Forsyte Saga, M. E, Reynolds
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Horne, Alastair.
Macmillan, 1894-1956:
(Macmillan, 1988).
Volume I of the Official Biography. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 537pp. Order No. NSBK-A9363
Keywords: 0333276914, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life histories, politics, political, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, politicians, Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister, Tories, Tory, Conservatives, statesmen, statesman
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