Quartet
Quartet

Author: Leah Broad

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0571366139

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The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer. 'Fabulous.' Sunday Times ' A rare gift.' Financial Times 'Passionate ... Vivid ... Timely.' Telegraph 'Readable and inspiring.' Guardian 'Compelling ... Ambitious ... Poignant.' Spectator 'Magnificent.' Kate Mosse 'Riveting.' Antonia Fraser 'A breath of fresh air.' Kate Molleson 'Fascinating.' Alexandra Harris 'Wonderful.' Claire Tomalin 'Splendid.' Miranda Seymour 'Remarkable.' Fiona Maddocks 'Pioneering.' Andrew Motion ' Brilliant' Helen Pankhurst Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for her modernist experimentation. Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms, her reputation as the 'English Strauss' never dented her modesty; on retirement, she tended Elgar's grave alone. Doreen Carwithen (b.1922): One of Britain's first woman film composers who scored Elizabeth II's coronation film, her success hid a 20-year affair with her married composition tutor . In their time, these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century's most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but today, they are ghostly presences, surviving only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten - until now. Leah Broad's magnificent group biography resurrects these forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces. Lighting up a panoramic sweep of British history over two World Wars, Quartet revolutionises the canon forever.

To Save a Child
To Save a Child

Author: Beatrice Fairbanks Cayzer

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-03-28

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1503549372

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Beatrice Fairbanks Cayzer is the daughter of a US Ambassador at Large, most notable for having negotiated the peace treaty for the Peruvian Ecuadorian War, and at the request of Secretary of War Woodring furthered the decision to keep Puerto Rico in the US Commonwealth. She married Major Stanley Cayzer, a Director in his familys shipping companies The Union Castle Line, Clan Line, and Sterling Line; a sportsman who won the Wokingham Race at Royal Ascot and the Stewards Cup at Goodwood, also scoring at the SanSiro Racetrack in Milan, Italy. His father, Lord High Sheriff of Northamptonshire, was also a successful racehorse owner and breeder whose BOUQUET was the dam of AIRBORNE an English Derby winner. The Cayzer ship the MV Windsor Castle was the second largest liner of its era after the Queen Mary.Beatrice Cayzer has written nine books, among them THE HAPPY HARROW MURDER TRILOGY, forty-six weeks on the Best Sellers list. She contributed to Town & Country, House & Garden, Good Housekeeping, ESQUIRE,The New York Herald Tribune, and the Journal Of Commerce , among other publications. She has three daughters, Mary, Jeannie and Claudia.

The Secret Diary of Mrs. John Quincy Adams
The Secret Diary of Mrs. John Quincy Adams

Author: Beatrice Cayzer

Publisher: Green Dragon Books

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1623860237

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President John Quincy Adams wed English-born Louisa Johnson after a two year pause between the asking and going through with the marriage. He tried to get our of marrying her, a twenty-two year old spinster with a shady promised of a dowry that could never be paid, and a murky secret in her background. During their 50 year long marriage both endured difficult times. As president, John Quincy Adams and Louisa were deeply disturbed from their earliest youth by the horrors of slavery. Together John Quincy and Louisa were able to accomplish the commencement of slavery. The challenge brought them together in a late amorous relationship soaring to blissful heights. Their relationship unfolds in Louisa's own strenuous voice from the pages of her secret diary. She spares no details about the journeys she takes, the hardships she endures, and most of all the hard work it takes to learn to put love into every word and action.

Journeying Boy
Journeying Boy

Author: John Evans

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 0571274641

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Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. Journeying Boy is a selection of his diaries that offer the reader an unseen insight into this complex man. Encompassing the years 1928-1938, they explore some key periods of Britten's life - his early compositions, his education first under composer Frank Bridge and then at the Royal College of Music, an unhappy but productive period studying under John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his reluctant and often painful process of parting from the warm, safe environment of his family home and his beloved mother. The diaries cast light on an often misrepresented musician whose technique, originality and musical prowess have entranced audiences for generations and who continues to inspire composers and musicians around the world.

The Harrows of Spring
The Harrows of Spring

Author: James Howard Kunstler

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0802190375

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The World Made by Hand postapocalyptic saga concludes with this “suspenseful tale spiked with suffering and violence, rough justice and love” (Booklist). The small town of Union Grove has adapted, struggled, and thrived in the new age of civilization. But early spring is full of hardships: Fresh food is scarce and the winter stores are almost gone. Despite the time of privation, young explorer Daniel Earle resurrects the town newspaper, and the town trustees ask him to help revive the Hudson River trade route. But even as the townsfolk strive forward, a group of visitors remind them that nothing is easy in the new world. They proclaim themselves as representatives of the Berkshire People’s Republic, spouting high-minded, near-fanatical rhetoric of social justice and absolute equality—all while demanding tribute from the citizens under slyly veiled threats. Now, the townspeople of Union Grove will have to decide just how far they are willing to go to keep the freedom and peace for which they have fought so hard . . . With this glimpse into a future that could become reality all too soon, James Howard Kunstler delivers “a slyly folksy, caustically hilarious, unabashedly proselytizing, and affecting finale in a keenly provocative saga.” (Booklist).