Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Our Village
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Recollections of a Literary Life
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Aunt Deborah
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Aunt Deborah by Mary Russell Mitford is about an old lady known throughout her town to be unfriendly and disagreeable, and perhaps to possess very interesting abilities. Excerpt: "A crosser old woman than Mrs. Deborah Thornby was certainly not to be found in the whole village of Hilton. Worth, in a country phrase, a power of money, and living (to borrow another rustic expression) upon her means, the exercise of her extraordinary faculty for grumbling and scolding seemed the sole occupation of her existence, her only pursuit, solace, and amusement; and it would have been a great pity to have deprived the poor woman of a pastime so consolatory to herself, and which did harm to nobody: her family consisting only of an old laborer, to guard the house, take care of her horse, her cow, and her chaise and cart, and work in the garden, who was happily, for his comfort, stone deaf."
The Widow's Dog
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
The Widow's Dog is a lovely and romantic tale about an old widow who lives alone with her dog, Chloe. Excerpt: "One of the most beautiful spots in the north of Hampshire—a part of the country which, from its winding green lanes, with the trees meeting overhead like a cradle, its winding roads between coppices, with wide turfy margins on either side, as if left on purpose for the picturesque and frequent gypsy camp, its abundance of hedgerow timber, and its extensive tracts of woodland, seems as if the fields were just dug out of the forest, as might have happened in the days of William Rufus—one of the loveliest scenes in this lovely county is the Great Pond at Ashley End."
The Letters of Mary Russell Mitford
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ...
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Our Village
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Decca
Author: Jessica MitfordPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307565661
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
“Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill’s nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, and embarked on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist (her funeral-industry exposé, The American Way of Death, became an instant classic). She was a celebrated wit, a charmer, and throughout her life a prolific and passionate writer of letters—now gathered here. Decca’s correspondence crackles with irreverent humor and mischief, and with acute insight into human behavior (and misbehavior) that attests to her generous experience of the worlds of politics, the arts, journalism, publishing, and high and low society. Here is correspondence with everyone from Katharine Graham and George Jackson, Betty Friedan, Miss Manners, Julie Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harry Truman, and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Decca’s sisters the Duchess of Devonshire and the novelist Nancy Mitford, her parents, her husbands, her children, and her grandchildren. In a profile of J.K. Rowling, The Daily Telegraph (UK), said, “Her favorite drink is gin and tonic, her least favorite food, trip. Her heroine is Jessica Mitford.”
Finden's Tableaux of the Affections; a Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues. From Paintings by W. Perring Ed. by ---.
Author: Mary Russell MitfordPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Undressing Mr. Darcy
Author: Karen DoornebosPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101625716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Taking it off in the name of history… Thirty-five-year-old American social media master Vanessa Roberts lives her thoroughly modern life with aplomb. So when her elderly Jane Austen–centric aunt needs her to take on the public relations for Julian Chancellor, a very private man from England who’s written a book called My Year as Mr. Darcy, Vanessa agrees. But she’s not “excessively diverted,” as Jane Austen would say. Hardbound books, teacups, and quill pens fly in the face of her e-reader, coffee, and smartphone… …Until she sees Julian take his tight breeches off for his Undressing Mr. Darcy show, an educational “striptease” down to his drawers to promote his book and help save his crumbling estate. The public relations expert suddenly realizes things have gotten…personal. But can this old-fashioned man claim her heart without so much as a GPS? It will take three festivals filled with Austen fans, a trip to England, an old frenemy, and a flirtatious pirate re-enactor to find out…