Gertrude Tennant’s life was remarkable for its length (18191918), but even more so for the influence she achieved as an unsurpassed London hostess. The salon she established when widowed in her early fifties attracted legions of celebrities, among them William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Thomas Huxley, John Everett Millais, Henry James, and Robert Browning. In her youth she had a fling with Gustave Flaubert, and in her later years she became the redoubtable mother-in-law to the explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But as a woman in a male-dominated world, Mrs. Tennant has been remembered mainly as a footnote in the lives of eminent men. This book recovers the lost life of Gertrude Tennant, drawing on a treasure trove of recently discovered family papersthousands of letters, including two dozen original letters from Flaubert to Tennant; dozens of diaries; and many other unpublished documents relating to Stanley and other famous figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  David Waller presents Gertrude Tennant’s life in colorful detail, placing her not only at the heart of a multigenerational, matriarchal family epic but also at the center of European social, literary, and intellectual life for the best part of a century. 

The Magnificent Mrs Tennant: The Adventurous Life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian Grande Dame

Biographies & Memoirs

Waller, David

Community & Culture

Yale University Press

The first of two parallel volumes resulting from a project of the British Library of Political and Economic Science to locate those non-governmental archives that provide the essential source material for contemporary historians. The present volume provides a guide to the records of some 1,000 organizations, institutions, and societies active and influential in British politics and public life after 1945. They range from the major archives of the political parties, trade unions, and employers' organizations, to the lesser-known records of pressure groups which have been active in a multitude of causes. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The St. Martin's Guide to Sources in Contemporary British History: Organizations and Societies

History

COOK, CHRIS

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

When German auto manufacturer Daimler-Benz and Chrysler formed DaimlerChrysler in 1998, it was the biggest merger of industrial companies in history. In this text, independent journalist and business consultant Waller presents a history of the merger, analyzing its successes and pointing out what could have been done differently. The text is based largely upon interviews with DaimlerChrysler CEO Jnrgen Schrempp and other inside sources. Distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Wheels on Fire

Business & Money

Biography & History

Hodder&Stoughton

Marketing

Elliott, Greg

Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn

Marketing & Sales

wiley

The Longman Handbook of Modern American History, 1763-1996 (Profiles in Power)

Travel

Longman Pub. Group

Book by Cook, Chris, Waller, David

Longman Handbook of Modern American History 1763-1996 (Longman Handbook to History)

Based on the work of the ESRC Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics, this is an indispensable reference work for librarians, historians and social scientists seeking information on the archive sources for British history, politics and society since 1945. Over 600 institutions are listed, with explanatory introductions and notes on the nature and whereabouts of their archive material. They range from the major political parties and national organisations like the TUC and the CBI to pressure groups in areas as diverse as nuclear disarmament, European unification and the women's movement. The result is not only a major work of reference but also a 'vade mecum' for the working historian and research student.

The Longman Guide to Sources in Contemporary British History

Reference

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Rwanda: Which Way Now? (Oxfam Country Profiles)

Africa

Oxfam Pubns

The first edition of this book, published in 1993, ended with an ominous prophecy: 'Rwanda is on the brink of an uncharted abyss of anarchy and violence, and there are all too many historical, ethnic, economic, and political pressures that are likely to push it over the edge.' Less than one year later, Rwanda descended into that abyss. One tenth of its population was massacred, and two million (out of seven million) people had fled from the country. How and why did it happen? In this book, David Waller, Oxfam's former Representative in Rwanda, explains the build-up of pressures in this small, desperately poor, and densely populated country. Sarah Westcott, a former Regional Manager of Oxfam's programme in Central Africa, adds an eight-page postscript which describes the genocide of 1994, and Rwanda's subsequent efforts to reconstruct its devastated economy and reconcile its bitterly opposed communities.

Rwanda: Which Way Now

Cambridge International AS & A Level IT Practical Skills Workbook with Digital Access (2 Years)

Children's Books

Computers & Technology

Cambridge University Press and Assessment

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