To Try Her Fortune In London

Author : Angela Woollacott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195142686
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Try Her Fortune in London written by Angela Woollacott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1870 and 1940 thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the centre of the art, publishing, theatrical and educational worlds. This study examines connections between whiteness, colonial status and modernity.

Author : Sherry Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101631112
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Luckiest Lady in London written by Sherry Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the superbly gifted Sherry Thomas comes this beautifully written romance about a marriage of convenience that turns inconveniently passionate... Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation. Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth—though he seems inexplicably interested in her. She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the praise he garners everywhere he goes. Still, when he is the only man to propose at the end of the London season, she reluctantly accepts. Louisa does not understand her husband’s mysterious purposes, but she cannot deny the pleasure her body takes in his touch. Nor can she deny the pull this magnetic man exerts upon her. But does she dare to fall in love with a man so full of dark secrets, any one of which could devastate her, if she were to get any closer?

Author : Jill Roe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674036093
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Brilliant Career written by Jill Roe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella Miles Franklin became an international publishing sensation in 1901, with "My Brilliant Career," a portrayal of an ambitious and independent woman defying social expectations that still captivates readers. In a magisterial biography, Roe details Miles' extraordinary life.

Author : Tully Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London was Full of Rooms written by Tully Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "London may have many rooms, but is there space for the travelling colonial? This collection of essays, memoirs and poems was initially inspired by the Malaysian writer Lee Kok Liang's ... London does not belong to me." --book cover.

Author : Tamara S Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317002164
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration written by Tamara S Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that was pressing popular fiction into its service. The exportation of characters at the end of a novel indisputably formed a convenient narrative solution that at once mirrored and exaggerated public policies about so-called 'superfluous' or 'redundant' parts of society. Yet the very convenience of such pat endings was increasingly called into question. New starts overseas might not be so easily realizable; emigration destinations failed to live up to the inflated promises of pro-emigration rhetoric; the 'unwanted' might make a surprising reappearance. Wagner juxtaposes representations of emigration in the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge with Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian settler fiction by Elizabeth Murray, Clara Cheeseman, and Susanna Moodie, offering a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation.

Author : Michelle Major
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488013934
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fortune in Waiting written by Michelle Major and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FORTUNE ON THE MENU Even in a town as eclectic as Austin, Keaton Fortune Whitfield stands out. With his dreamy British accent and his slate-blue eyes, he has captured the fancy of every red-blooded Texas female in town…except one. Francesca Harriman, his favorite waitress at Lola May's, seems completely immune to his charms. When she's not on her shift, she's too busy studying to pay attention to him—which only makes him want her more. Francesca has been burned before, and she won't let the Londoner melt her heart. What would a brilliant, wealthy architect want with a commoner like her? She's not about to abandon her schooling to become Keaton's catch of the day. Could a hash-slinging waitress really find happiness with a Fortune?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temple Bar written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Weir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Fortune written by Judith Weir and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Latimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Latimer's Luck written by Latimer and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terri Mullholland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317172086
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Boarding Houses in Interwar Women's Literature written by Terri Mullholland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embraced for the dramatic opportunities afforded by a house full of strangers, the British boarding house emerged as a setting for novels published during the interwar period by a diverse range of women writers from Stella Gibbons to Virginia Woolf. To use the single room in the boarding house or bedsit, Terri Mullholland argues, is to foreground a particular experience. While the single room represents the freedoms of independent living available to women in the early twentieth century, it also marks the precariousness of unmarried women’s lives. By placing their characters in this transient space, women writers could explore women's changing social roles and complex experiences – amateur prostitution, lesbian relationships, extra-marital affairs, and abortion – outside traditional domestic narrative concerns. Mullholland presents new readings of works by canonical and non-canonical writers, including Stella Gibbons, Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf. A hybrid of the modernist and realist domestic fiction written and read by women, the literature of the single room merges modernism's interest in interior psychological states with the realism of precisely documented exterior spaces, offering a new mode of engagement with the two forms of interiority.