Cardinal Points

Literature & Fiction

Aleman, Vincent Orion

Poetry

Athena Press

<p>Reveries [rev-uh-reez]Loose musings; daydreams;The random thoughts of a poet.</p>

Reveries, Book I, With Art by William Blake

Avoiding rape, without putting yourself in protective custody

Molmen, Marcia E. M

Who is My Enemy?

Muriel, Joyce

Contemporary

The story of Harriot Mellon is a unique, individual and perceptive insight into a vanished world of deprivation and privilege. Joan Perkin's book is the amazing story of a remarkable woman: Harriot Mellon, the poor child of strolling players in the late eighteenth century, who rose to become a star at Drury Lane in the heyday of Sarah Siddons and Dorothy Jordan, and the protegee and second wife of Thomas Coutts the royal banker. Annoyed by his three daughters, all married into the aristocracy, who treated her badly, he left her the Bank, which she doubled in value in fifteen years. A famous society hostess, charitable to the poor yet familiar with "Prinny", Prince Regent and later George IV, and pursued as the richest widow in Britain by his brothers the royal dukes and other suitors, she married, secondly, the young Duke of St. Albans, appropriately a descendant of Nell Gwyn and Charles II, and so became "the Merry Duchess". Friend of Sir Walter Scott and satirised by Benjamin Disraeli as "Mrs. Millions", she was savagely attacked by the yellow press and the scurrilous cartoonists of the day, but never ceased her charities to deserving dependents and members of the acting profession down on their luck. Finally, she left her huge fortune to her youngest step-granddaughter Angela, who became Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the greatest philanthropist of the nineteenth century. Thus "the Merry Duchess" became fairy godmother by proxy to the Victorian poor. Joan Perkin is a women's historian, with well-known books on Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England and on Victorian Women. A pioneer of the Welfare State, starting as an Inspector of National Insurance in 1948, she has had a varied career, in industrial relations in the rayon industry, as a magistrate, and a university teacher in a top-ten American university. As a latecomer to higher education, she used her experience to write an advice book for other

The Merry Duchess

Biographies & Memoirs

Perkin, Joan

Historical

Romantic Attraction

Ezedom, Lucklyn

Parenting & Relationships

The Carnival at Night

Cameron Stelzer

Genre Fiction

POEMS OF PEAK AND DALE is a collection of poems on subjects associated with Derbyshire and the Peak District. The poems, which vary in form and style, refelect the author's love of his surroundings. They are grouped thematically. For example, some are inspired by the beautiful Derbyshire landscape and local places of interest. Famous people associated with the area are not neglected and there are poems, for example about Bonny Prince Charlie and the romantic Dorothy Vernon. The author has lived in the attractive town of Matlock for many years and has written books on a variety of subjects.

Poems of Peak and Dale

Robinson, Alan

<p>Michael Bor studied for a BA at Bangor University, North Wales, an MA at the LSE, and a D.Phil at Sussex University. He directed 'Marat/Sade' at the National Student's Drama Festival, and 'The Royal Hunt of the Sun' as a postgraduate. He lectured in colleges and Polytechnics for twenty years, and has been a film, video and television regulator for over twenty years. (He was the Principal Examiner at the BBFC 1993-2000.) He wrote a biography of nineteenth century philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore (published by Anthony Blond). He is married to Josephine, has four children, and lives in London and the Maltese island, Gozo.</p>

The Socialist League in the 1930s

History

Bor, Micheal

Europe

Ruth and her friends are like any other kids - their main instinct is to have fun! So, when Ruth has her eleventh birthday party, everyone's invited. However, this is not just any ordinary group of friends . . . all of them are unique in their own way. Some might call theirs 'Special Needs', but they prefer just special friends . . . The author explores the issues surrounding disability in a sensitive and clear way, enhancing the reader's understanding of those young people who don't see their impairments as a problem, only the way society fails to deal with them.

Ruth's Party

Gillespie, Desi

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