Rachel Trethewey: 3 books
Pearls before Poppies
The True Story of the Red Cross Pearls
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
In February 1918, when the First World War was still being bitterly fought, prominent society member Lady Northcliffe conceived an idea to help raise funds for the British Red Cross. Using her husband's newspapers, The Times and the Daily Mail, she ran a campaign to collect enough pearls to create...
Before Wallis
Edward VIII's Other Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Wallis Simpson was the woman who stole the king’s heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII’s first or only love.This book is about the women he adored before Wallis dominated his life. There was Rosemary Leveson Gower, the girl he wanted to marry and who would have made the...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743*–*1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility...