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Correspondence and Album of Dorothy Allhusen
The collection includes a variety of letters to and from British and American aristocracy, novelists, parliamentarians, actresses, military commanders, and socialites. Correspondents include Dorothy Allhusen's mother, Lady Jeune, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Disraeli, Ellen Terry, Ada Rehan, W. S. Maugham, Lord Kitchener, A. Bonar Law and Thomas Hardy. There is a letter from Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, (later King Edward VII), and George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of George III. Also, correspondence from St John Broderick, General Sir Redvers Buller, and Field Marshall Lord Roberts of Kandahar. There is also an album of newspaper cuttings, letters, photographs, poetry and personal thoughts about World War 1.
A Book Of Scents And Dishes (A Vintage Cookery Books Classic)
A Book Of Scents And Dishes (A Vintage Cookery Books Classic) By Allhusen, Dorothy Originally published in the 1920s, this is a collection of recipes contributed by various members of aristocratic families for a charity cook book. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Vintage Cookery Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include : - Soups - Sauces - Fish - Meat - Poultry and Game - Vegetables - Savouries - Eggs, Cream, Porridge, etc - Puddings - Wines - Beverages - Tea - Bread, Scones, Buns, Biscuits - Cakes - Jams and Preserves - Confectionary - Children's Food - Pot Pourri - Soaps - Bills Of Fare - Index
John Galsworthy’s Compassion
This book discusses John Galsworthy’s compassion for people and animals, in his fiction, non-fiction and drama. Initial chapters explore compassion in The Forsyte Saga and The Modern Comedy, and his parents’ influence. Other chapters examine his works helping prison reform, men and children disabled during the First World War, and people whose relatives were interned as war-time alien enemies. Two chapters focus on slum clearance and labour unrest during the twentieth century’s first three decades. Another two concentrate on animal welfare and vivisection. The final chapter attempts to appraise Galsworthy as a writer by looking at what commentators past and present have said, and at what constitutes literature.
Winston and Clementine
More than 800 intimate letters between Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, are presented in this collection that provides a glimpse into the couple's ardent and playful lifelong love and offers a sweeping yet accessible view of British politics in the 20th century. Edited by the youngest, and last surviving, child of the Churchills. An "L.A. Times" Best Book of the Year. Photos.
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage. Portrayed in full for the first time is Maugham’s disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, a man...
Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing
This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify the guidelines of middle class domesticity, Fisher, Toklas, and David claimed the pleasures of gastronomy previously reserved for men. Articulating a language through which female desire is artfully and publicly sated, Fisher, Toklas, and David expanded women’s food writing beyond the domestic realm by pioneering forms of self-expression that celebrate female appetite for pleasure and for culinary adventure. In so doing, they illuminate the power of genre-bending food writing to transgress and reconfigure conventional gender ideologies. For these women, food encouraged a sensory engagement with their environment and a physical receptivity toward pleasure that engendered their creative aesthetic.
Victory in the Kitchen
This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard and enjoyed her life. But while Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, her accomplishments were anything but. Georgina started her career as a nursemaid and ended it cooking for one of the best-known figures in British history: Winston Churchill. To him, food was central, not only as a pleasure but as a diplomatic tool at a time when the world was embroiled in war. With this eager eater and his skilled cook, ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York, Annie Gray shows how life in service - and food - changed during the huge upheavals of the twentieth century.
The Grove Diaries
"The publication of the diaries of successive generations of the Grove family is of considerable importance. Spanning more than a century, from 1809 to 1925, and described by one scholar as 'like a Jane Austen novel, but for real', they chart the rise of a Wiltshire/Dorset border family from county gentry to aristocratic Victorian grandees, before finally tracing the much steeper trajectory of the family's decline." "The Grove family home was Ferne House, near Shaftesbury. And it is at Ferne in 1809 that the eighteen-year-old Harriet Grove began this remarkable series of diaries. But Harriet was no ordinary diarist, for her later attempts to scratch out references to 'my dear Bysshe' testify...
Thomas Hardy
Michael Millgate, one of the world's leading Hardy scholars adds 20 years' worth of new research to his classic biography. He presents new insights into Hardy's writing, his private life and his two marriages.
