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This lie from my past threatens to destroy my first love… After the death of her parents, Marianne suffers at the hands of her tyrant stepbrother, her new guardian. If she stays, she will lose her innocence and her life to him, so she decides to flee to London and soon ends up working as a governess for the daughter of a widow in mourning in the countryside. As Marian settles in at the manor, she’s increasingly attracted to the new earl, Ash, who is taking over the estate. But then she learns that he is a friend of her stepbrother…
With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women’s choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women’s career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.
Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction... This book tells the story of Lady Catherine, a beautiful American girl who became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes' award-winning drama Downton Abbey. Charming and charismatic, Catherine caught the eye of Lord Porchester (or 'Porchey', as he was known) when she was just 20 years old, and wearing a pale yellow dress at a ball. She had already turned down 14 proposals before she eventually married Porchey in 1922. But less than a year later Porchey's father died suddenly, and he became the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, inheriting a title and a Castle that changed both their lives forever. Catherine ...
The cool, aloof Earl And the enchanting Lady
This Research Handbook critically examines the myriad social and economic inequalities faced by those in later life. Contributors dissect examples from the Global North and South to support a new approach to studying ageing that moves beyond popular discourses.
A wallflower's time to shine... The Earl of Shalford needs to marry into money to save his estate. Wealthy and beautiful Henrietta Buxted should be the perfect candidate. So why does his eye keep wandering to her quiet cousin, Charlotte Wyncroft? Charlotte watches Henrietta's games of courtship with wry amusement. That is, until a stolen dance reveals a hidden side to the earl. Penniless Charlotte knows she's far from a suitable match, yet, in Adam's arms, she can dream of the happily–ever–after she's always wanted!
The very notion that Ian Carmichael would be her new guardian was intolerable to young Brandy Robertson. And although she was sure he would not bother to come to Scotland himself, he did--and proved himself to be everything Brandy desired in a man.
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