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Fully illustrated description of Truro’s well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.
What happens when you send phony news to your boarding school’s alumni magazine? Ricky Steele, a fifty-something odd jobber, finds out when she returns to her alma mater pretending to be a private investigator. Before long, the niece of Massachusetts’ governor goes missing and a murderer strikes again. As Ricky races against time to stop a killer and rescue a child, she enlists the aid of her former roommates. Together, the trio wreak havoc on Whitley School’s Reunion Weekend. Before they know it, Ricky and her pals have unleashed a killer, who is not afraid to kill again. Join Ricky on her first caper and see how this humorous rollicking mystery series got its start. Rollicking fun, Ricky’s first case, stopping a killer and saving a child.
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Traditional accounts of Romantic poetry have depicted John Clare as a peripheral figure, an original genius whose talents removed him from the mainstream. This volume helps to show that far from being brilliant yet isolated, Clare was deeply involved in the rich cultural life of both his village and the larger metropolis. Offering an account of Clare’s poems as they relate to the literary culture and burgeoning literary history of his day, Mina Gorji defines the context in which Clare’s work can best be understood: in relation to eighteenth-century traditions as they persisted and developed in the Romantic period.
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Truro has changed and developed over the last century.
This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest counties. It provides a nostalgic look at Cornwall's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites.The photographs are taken from the Historic England Archive, a unique collection of over 12 million photographs, drawings, plans and documents covering England's archaeology, architecture, social and local history. Pictures date from the earliest days of photography to the present and cover subjects from Bronze Age burials and medieval churches to cinemas and seaside resorts.Cornwall lies at the lies at the end of the South West Peninsula, with the Atlantic Sea on its north coast the English Chann...
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In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.