Edna Healey: 3 books
The Queen's House
A Social History of Buckingham Palace
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A “lively” tour of the royal residence: Readers “will delight in this well-written chronicle of the House of Windsor.” —Publishers Weekly
In this social history of Buckingham Palace, Edna Healey mines the royal archives to take the reader into its moonlit gardens, up the grand staircase,...
Lady Unknown
The Life of Angela Burdett-Coutts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In 1837, at the age of twenty-three, Angela Burdett-Coutts inherited a vast fortune from her banker grandfather, making her one of the richest and thus potentially powerful women in Victorian England. She moved in the highest social circles: entertaining the rising stars of the political scene, Disraeli...
Wives of Fame
Mary Livingstone, Jenny Marx and Emma Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Here are portraits of three very different Victorian women, all of whom married men of exceptional talent, energy and genius. To be the wife of such frenetic, explosive characters as David Livingstone, Karl Marx or Charles Darwin, especially at this period in history, demanded rare qualities. Yet...