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The Life And Times Of The Governess
A rich and fascinating account of the lives of Victorian governesses, exploring nineteenth-century attitudes to women, family and class. If a nineteen...
The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres
Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the ...
The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business
From acclaimed novelist and cultural historian Ruth Brandon comes a captivating dual biography of the legendary founders of the cosmetics industry, He...
The Surrealists, 1917-1945
Brandon follows the lives of the Surrealists--such as Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali and Man Ray--through the movement, which culminated ...
The gripping story of Helena Rubinstein, Eugรne Schueller, and the dark side of the beauty business they helped to create Helena Rubinstein and L'Or๏ฟฝ...
Singer and the Sewing Machine
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Duchamp, Love, and Art
In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New...
The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Okkultismus (19.-20. Jh.)....
Dr Reggie Lee, newly arrived at the National Gallery, is putting together a small exhibition around three Caravaggios depicting 'St Cecilia and the An...
A Capitalist Romance
A Biography of Sarah Bernhardt
Alexis Soyer : a Life in Seven Courses
This is the story of Alexis Soyer's life, of the society in which he lived and of how he introduced good cuisine to England....
Helena Rubinstein, L'Oreal, and the Blemished History of Looking Good
Thanks to a combination of business savvy, breathtaking chutzpah, and lucky timing, Helena Rubinstein managed to transform herself from a poor Polish ...
Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences
First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis...
Sagas of Upward Nobility, 1870-1914
Someone has leaked a top secret Pentagon document to the Monitor newspaper in London. Who is the mole and will the leak set off the final holocaust?...
Love, Sex and the Woman Question
a life for science
The Culinary Revolutions of Alexis Soyer
During the first half of the 19th century, the most famous cook -- and one of the most famous men in London -- was Alexis Soyer. This biography explor...
In a series of explorations both historical and actual, Automobile follows the cars momentous journey as it shapes the twentieth century, and sets the...
Level B, Grades 3 & 4
Twelve classroom tested activity books that encourage students to explore the world around them. Each book contains 28 theme-based activities with det...
A Handbook on Easier Living for the Elderly
The Anti-nuclear Movement Since 1945
Middle
Love, Sex and the Women Question
This is a group biography of the late-Victorian intellectuals and social reformers known collectively as the New Thinkers. This extraordinary group of...
Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, e, p, i, t....