Author: Cindy Holbrook
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821759110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A notorious jilt, Lady Serena Fairchild meets her match in Nicholas St. Ives, whom she knows only as Tom the serving man, and who in reality is a former soldier and well-known rake in flight from an irate Frenchman.
The Lady's-Maid
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443439819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Fiercely dependent on her identity as a lady’s maid, a woman relates her experiences and ambitions, and the paths that her vocation has taken her down in this dramatic monologue. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443439819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Fiercely dependent on her identity as a lady’s maid, a woman relates her experiences and ambitions, and the paths that her vocation has taken her down in this dramatic monologue. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
My Lady's Servant
Author: Cindy Holbrook
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821759110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A notorious jilt, Lady Serena Fairchild meets her match in Nicholas St. Ives, whom she knows only as Tom the serving man, and who in reality is a former soldier and well-known rake in flight from an irate Frenchman.
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821759110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A notorious jilt, Lady Serena Fairchild meets her match in Nicholas St. Ives, whom she knows only as Tom the serving man, and who in reality is a former soldier and well-known rake in flight from an irate Frenchman.
Lady's Maid
Author: Margaret Forster
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307823024
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
“Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.”—Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady’s maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress’ s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years. It is Lily who smuggles Miss Barrett out of the gloomy Wimpole Street house, witnesses her secret wedding to Robert Browning in an empty church, and flees with them to threadbare lodgings and the heat, light, and colors of Italy. As housekeeper, nursemaid, companion, and confidante, Lily is with Elizabeth in every crisis–birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lily’s own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given. Praise for Lady's Maid “[A] wonderful novel . . . fully imagined and persuasive fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . heartbreaking . . . grips the reader's imagination on every page . . . [Margaret] Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Extremely readable . . . The author's sense of the nineteenth century seems innate.”—The New Yorker “Highly recommended . . . an engrossing novel of the colorful Browning ménage.”—Library Journal “Delightful . . . entertaining.”—Vogue
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307823024
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
“Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.”—Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady’s maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress’ s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years. It is Lily who smuggles Miss Barrett out of the gloomy Wimpole Street house, witnesses her secret wedding to Robert Browning in an empty church, and flees with them to threadbare lodgings and the heat, light, and colors of Italy. As housekeeper, nursemaid, companion, and confidante, Lily is with Elizabeth in every crisis–birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lily’s own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given. Praise for Lady's Maid “[A] wonderful novel . . . fully imagined and persuasive fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . heartbreaking . . . grips the reader's imagination on every page . . . [Margaret] Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Extremely readable . . . The author's sense of the nineteenth century seems innate.”—The New Yorker “Highly recommended . . . an engrossing novel of the colorful Browning ménage.”—Library Journal “Delightful . . . entertaining.”—Vogue
The Lady's Maid's Bell
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781482068887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
IT was the autumn after I had the typhoid. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me. Most of my money was gone, and after I'd boarded for two months, hanging about the employment-agencies, and answering any advertisement that looked any way respectable, I pretty nearly lost heart, for fretting hadn't made me fatter, and I didn't see why my luck should ever turn. It did though—or I thought so at the time. A Mrs. Railton, a friend of the lady that first brought me out to the States, met me one day and stopped to speak to me: she was one that had always a friendly way with her. She asked me what ailed me to look so white, and when I told her, "Why, Hartley," says she, "I believe I've got the very place for you. Come in to-morrow and we'll talk about it."
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781482068887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
IT was the autumn after I had the typhoid. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me. Most of my money was gone, and after I'd boarded for two months, hanging about the employment-agencies, and answering any advertisement that looked any way respectable, I pretty nearly lost heart, for fretting hadn't made me fatter, and I didn't see why my luck should ever turn. It did though—or I thought so at the time. A Mrs. Railton, a friend of the lady that first brought me out to the States, met me one day and stopped to speak to me: she was one that had always a friendly way with her. She asked me what ailed me to look so white, and when I told her, "Why, Hartley," says she, "I believe I've got the very place for you. Come in to-morrow and we'll talk about it."
The Lady's Maid
Author: Rosina Harrison
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0091943515
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"In 1929, Yorkshire lass Rosina Harrison became personal maid to Lady Astor: the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat and wife of one of England's wealthiest lords. Lady Astor was brilliant yet tempestuous, but outspoken Rose gave as good as she got. For 35 years, the battle of wills and wits raged between the two women, until an unlikely friendship began to emerge. "The Lady's Maid" is a captivating insight into the great wealth 'upstairs' but also the endless work 'downstairs', but it is Rose's unique relationship with Lady Astor that makes this book a truly enticing read"--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0091943515
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
"In 1929, Yorkshire lass Rosina Harrison became personal maid to Lady Astor: the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat and wife of one of England's wealthiest lords. Lady Astor was brilliant yet tempestuous, but outspoken Rose gave as good as she got. For 35 years, the battle of wills and wits raged between the two women, until an unlikely friendship began to emerge. "The Lady's Maid" is a captivating insight into the great wealth 'upstairs' but also the endless work 'downstairs', but it is Rose's unique relationship with Lady Astor that makes this book a truly enticing read"--Publisher's description.
Pamela
My Lady Domino
Author: Sandra Heath
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610849264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Miss Adele Russell had an idyllic childhood, but that was five years ago. Now, with her father dead and disgraced, she was her old nurse’s shop assistant. When she found an invitation to the Bellinghams’ ball, she couldn’t resist attending. There she danced masked with the man who had rejected her, Lord Blaisdon, and a man who would not have taken notice had he known her position. Regency Romance by Sandra Heath; originally published by Signet
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610849264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Miss Adele Russell had an idyllic childhood, but that was five years ago. Now, with her father dead and disgraced, she was her old nurse’s shop assistant. When she found an invitation to the Bellinghams’ ball, she couldn’t resist attending. There she danced masked with the man who had rejected her, Lord Blaisdon, and a man who would not have taken notice had he known her position. Regency Romance by Sandra Heath; originally published by Signet
Novels
Author: Samuel Richardson
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Indiscretions of a Lady's Maid
Author: William Le Queux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description