Mariana

Literature & Fiction

MONICA DICKENS

Contemporary

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International Law: As Interpreted During the Russo-Japanese War (1907)

Someone at a Distance

Dorothy Whipple

An Interrupted Life: the Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43

Biographies & Memoirs

Etty Hillesum

Historical

The firelight flickered on the nursery wall, and the children sat round the table, learning the new game which the nursery-maid said they would like ever so, directly they understood it. "I understand it already," said Alex, the eldest, tossing her head proudly. "Look, Barbara, you fold the piece of paper like this, and then give it to Cedric, because he's next to you, and I give mine to you, and Emily gives hers to me. That's right, isn't it, Emily?" "Quite right, Miss Alex; what a clever girl, to be sure. Here, Master Baby, you can play with me. You're too little to do it all by yourself." "He isn't Baby any more. We've got to call him Archie now. The new little sister is Baby," said Alex dictatorially.

Consequences

Delafield, E.M.

Every Eye

Isobel English, a novelist of the 1950s, wrote three brief books about adultery and damnation admired today by Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge. Every Eye concerns Hattie, a woman not really at home anywhere, least of all among her manipulative family, which has assigned her the role of shabby-genteel London spinster. She has understood little about her existence, and about her strange, aborted love affair with a much older man   the central mystery of her life. Now, while in Ibiza with her new young husband, the meaning of her past is becoming clear, its hidden patterns emerging from gray English shadows into the blazing Mediterranean sun. "It is in Ibiza that the story breaks free from its resentments," said Anita Brookner in praise of this remarkable neglected novel, "a lucidly written account of various kinds of confusion ... and a valuable lesson in where to look for freedom."

Isabel English

A history of women's lives in the twentieth century, very readably written by a novelist. Preface by Yvonne Roberts.

A Woman's Place: 1910-1975

Politics & Social Sciences

Ruth Adam

Social Sciences

The Carlyles at Home is about Thomas and Jane Carlyle's life together at 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row, Chelsea, and was written in the 1960s by a former actress who was then living there as co-custodian of the house with her husband. Thea Holme's book evokes the everyday life of the Carlyles from the day they moved in, in 1834, until Jane's death in 1866. 'The Carlyles' dour joy in the daily battle of study and kitchen is the making of Thea Holme's detailed account of housekeeping at Cheyne Row,' wrote VS Pritchett in the New Statesman in 1965. 'No stove, cooking by candlelight, a state of civil war about doors and windows: he can't bear them closed, she freezes in the draughts. They are the best letter-writers, born chatterers and reporters who can knock off a scene or a person in a talking phrase. Jane Carlyle gives us Mrs Leigh Hunt continually in and out, borrowing spoons, porridge, even a brass fender, and usually drunkish. Jane screams at Browning for putting a kettle down on her best carpet; tells how an Irish builder falls through the ceiling of her bedroom during alterations; battles with the 32 maids she had in 34 years at 8 a year. She has that innate Scottish gift for the pawky recital of domestic clatter.'Jane may have subsumed her life into that of the Sage of Chelsea but, such is the interest nowadys in domestic history and women writers, most twenty-first century readers will be more interested in her life than in her husband's

The Carlyles at Home

Thea Holme

A 1947 thriller about a mother who shields her daughter from a blackmailer.

The Blank Wall

Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay

Genre Fiction

The Wise Virgins (1913) is a semi-autobiographical novel about a dilemma: whether Harry, the hero, should go into the family business and marry the suitable but dull girl next door or move in artistic circles and marry one of the entrancing 'Lawrence' girls.

The Wise Virgins: A Story of Words, Opinions and a Few Emotions

Woolf, Leonard

Literary

Good Food on the Aga

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Heath, Ambrose

Kitchen Appliances

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