bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, biography, skoolzy-stuff, tudor, history, summer-2014, published-2005, spring-2015, hardback Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Themis-Athena (Does not and never will own a Kindle) Read from June 04, 2014 to March 08, 2015 Bess of Hardwick. Description: Fro...
Before reading "The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family" by Mary S. Lovell, I had already read Hons and Rebels: The Classic Memoir of One of Last Century's Most Extraordinary Families by Jessica Mitford, Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford, and the first two novels by Nancy Mit...
Jane Digby is an amazing woman. A woman who lived a late 20th Century life in the 19th Century. Who was divorced at a time only 2-3 people were divorced per year in England. Had affairs with Kings and Lords and who remained friendly with all her exes throughout her long life. Also a woman who en...
As a biography of the Mitfords, this is quite well done. If you're not interested in the Mitfords or England between the wars, then it's a lot of privilege and name dropping and bon mots and Nazis (or Fascists) versus Communists.I find the Mitfords fascinating, so I quite enjoyed the book. It's al...
This book does an excellent job of explaining Amelia Earhart's achievements and putting them in the context of her time. It also highlights the achievements of a number of her now lesser known contemporaries, which I found fascinating.I especially enjoyed the descriptions of the intrepid women aviat...
I loved [book:West With the Night] that I read several months ago so I was interested in foraging forthe real story behind Beryl Markham’s soloflight west across the Atlantic, her childhoodin Africa and her relationship with several famous men of the early twentieth century. Beryl’s father was a fai...
Very well researched, complete with comprehensive documentation (footnotes AND endnotes, oh joy!) and a good understanding of the scholarship that’s come before. The book (a biography of a gentlewoman who lived through the later Tudor monarchs) has a tendency to get bogged down in details and tangen...
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