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bookshelves: radio-4, summer-2012, autobiography-memoir, play-dramatisation Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from June 01 to 11, 2012 Nancy Carroll plays the notorious courtesan with a trail of rich and powerful lovers.Adapted by Ellen Dryden.blurb - Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wils...
Classic serial starts Sunday. Nancy Carroll plays the notorious courtesan with a trail of rich and powerful lovers.Adapted by Ellen Dryden.blurb - Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wilson, one of the most infamous and talked-about women of the early 19th century. Her lovers included aristocrats, adve...
I have to admit that this is not a book I would've picked up on my own. I like history but prefer the Middle Ages and the Tudor period. This book came in a set about women in history. I wanted the other books in the set.It's very entertaining. It is impossible not to like Wilson. At times, she ...
I found this book on the bookshelf when I was vacationing with my family in the South of France. (Wow, that is possibly one of the most pretentious sentences I've every written. But that's I was.) It's beautifully evocative, instantly transported you back through time, into the lives of these fascin...
Laguerre is considered one of the master authors of Puerto Rican literature. Some of his works are required reading in Puerto Rican schools. At one point, there was even a campaign to advocate for him receiving the Nobel in Literature. I read the book in graduate school for a Spanish American lit. c...