Author: Ian NorriePublisher:
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Category : Hampstead (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Heathside Book of Hampstead and Highgate
Author: Ian NorriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hampstead (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Heathside Book of Hampstead and Highgate. Edited by I. Norrie. Photograph by Edwin Smith. Drawings by Ronald Saxby. [With Plates.].
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Author: Ian NORRIEHampstead & Highgate in Old Photographs, 1870-1918
Author: Christina M. GeePublisher:
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Category : Hampstead (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Book of Hampstead
Author: Olivia Manning
Author: Deirdre DavidPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191655058
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the Second World War. From the time she left Portsmouth for London in the mid-1930s determined to become a famous writer, through her wartime years in the Balkans and the Middle East, and until her death in London in 1980, Olivia Manning was a dedicated and hard-working author. Married to a British Council lecturer stationed in Bucharest, Olivia Manning arrived in Romania on the 3rd September 1939, the fateful day when Allied forces declared war on Germany. For the duration of World War Two, she kept one step ahead of invading German forces as she and her husband fled Romania for Greece, and then Greece for the Middle East, where they stayed until the end of the war. These tumultuous wartime years are the subject of her best-known and most transparently autobiographical novels, The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. Olivia Manning refused to be labelled a 'feminist,' but her novels depict with cutting insight and sardonic wit the marginal position of women striving for independent identity in arenas frequently controlled by men, whether on the frontlines of war or in the publishing world of the 1950s. However, she did not just write about World War Two and women's lives. Amongst other things, Manning published fiction about making do in Britain's post-war Age of Austerity, about desecration of the environment through uncontrolled development, and about the painful adjustment to post-war British life for young men. As the author of thirteen published novels, two volumes of short stories, several works of non-fiction, and a regular reviewer of contemporary fiction, she was a visible presence on the British literary scene throughout her life and her work provides a detailed insight into the period. Grounded in thorough research and enriched by discussion of previously unexamined manuscripts and letters, Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is a timely study of Olivia Manning's remarkable life. Deirdre David integrates incisive critical analysis of Manning's writing with extensive discussion of the historical contexts of her fiction.
Ben Jonson's London
Author: Fran C. ChalfantPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Ben Jonson was a Londoner. He lived there from infancy, left for only brief periods of travel, and used various locales in or near London as the settings for eleven of his seventeen plays. Ben Jonson's London opens with a discussion of the purpose, scope, and success of Jonson's use of London settings as Placenames. Chalfant demonstrates that Ben Jonson brought the same judicious, erudite, and dramatically functional insight to his handling of London topography-from overall settings to very brief mentions-as he did to his well-known use of classical, mythological, and iconographical detail.
Hampstead & Highgate Through Time
Author: Robert BardPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445637413
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hampstead and Highgate have changed and developed over the last century.
G.M. Hopkins
Author: Stephanie Edwards PlowmanPublisher: English Literary Studies Monograph Series
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Book of Westminster
Author: Ian NorriePublisher: [London] : High Hill Books
ISBN:
Category : Westminster (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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