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The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene: Actress, Writer, and Rebel Victorian
Helen Batten
‘I rode on the stage in such style, that the men in front forgot I was a girl, and also forgot to laugh.’
A portrait of an almost forgotten star who trod the boards, travelled the globe and tore up the Victorian rule book.
From humble beginnings as the daughter of a Cle...
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The True History Of The Elephant Man
Michael Howell, Peter Ford
Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1862, is better known as The Elephant Man.
Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take...
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Watermarks: Life, Death and Swimming
Lenka Janiurek
Lenka Janiurek first encounters tragedy with the death of her mother when she is just nine. Involving a chaotic family, early success as a playwright, disastrous relationships, motherhood, and brushes with both extreme wealth and poverty, Janiurek’s rich and remarkable memoir is...
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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia
Caroline Moorehead
Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century’s most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remains widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy with her Irish mother after the death of her wealthy American father. They settled in the Vi...
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Freya Stark
Caroline Moorehead
Born in Paris 1893, a precocious and tough Freya Stark spent her childhood wondering across Europe, speaking three languages by the time she was five. She became one of the twentieth-century’s most remarkable and inspirational women. Renowned for her flamboyant and unorthodox b...
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