This Sporting Life
This Sporting Life

Author: Robert Colls

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0198208332

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This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.

The Brontës
The Brontës

Author: Juliet Barker

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 824

ISBN-13: 1639360891

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The story of the tragic Brontë family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addled wastrel of a brother, wildly romantic Emily, unrequited Anne, and "poor Charlotte." Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers such as Mrs. Gaskell who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barker's landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontës. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Brontë manuscripts, including contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontë biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Brontës is a revolutionary picture of the world's favorite literary family.

Lime Kilns
Lime Kilns

Author: David Johnson

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1445680602

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Explores a lavishly illustrated look at an important part of our industrial history with Lime Kilns.

Walking with Anne Brontë
Walking with Anne Brontë

Author: Tim Whittome

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 166987821X

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Whether on the seashore or on the trails between clumps of Haworth heather, let us walk with Anne Brontë and listen to her discussing the kind of truth “that always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.” Join us in our academic and personal celebratory reflections on “gentle” Anne’s “core of steel,” sense of family duty, and enduring courage. Anne was the most underrated and least known of the three Brontë sisters for the better part of a century after she died in May 1849. Walking with Anne Brontë adds gravitas and personality to the growing chorus of academic and other voices honoring the youngest Brontë sibling’s inspirational life and literary legacy.

Walking with Anne Brontë (full-color edition)
Walking with Anne Brontë (full-color edition)

Author: Tim Whittome

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-10-27

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13:

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Whether on the seashore or on the trails between clumps of Haworth heather, let us walk with Anne Brontë and listen to her discussing the kind of truth that “always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.” Please join us in our academic and personal celebratory reflections on “gentle” Anne’s inner “core of steel,” her strong sense of family duty, and her enduring courage. Anne was the most underrated and least understood of the famous Brontë sisters for the better part of a century after she died in May 1849. Walking with Anne Brontë adds gravitas and personality to the growing chorus of academic and other voices now honoring the youngest Brontë sibling’s inspirational life and literary legacy.