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The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis
Primarily an account of foreign travel and of nursing during the Crimean War ; includes criticism of Florence Nightingale.
Bette Davis
In a career that spanned almost sixty years, Bette Davis made more than eighty films. Not for nothing was she called the Queen of Hollywood. And she had her own, unique style. What she wanted to do was to act -- and this meant rejecting the glamor image that Hollywood wanted for its young stars; it meant fighting for the roles she knew were right for her; it meant quarrels with studios, with directors, with her leading men. But she succeeded and, after winning two Oscars, she appeared in an unforgettable sequence of dramas, from Dark Victory to All About Eve. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she refused to rest on her laurels as she grew into middle-age, but continually sought scripts that would give her something to bite on. The result was another sequence of memorable movies, including Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Bette Davis worked all over the world, and in her later years she lent her power to all-star epics such as Death on the Nile and her last film The Whales of August, which appeared in 1988 -- a year before her death. This lavishly illustrated biogrpahy tells the story of a star the like of whom we shall not see again.
Early Western Augusta Pioneers
From its establishment in 1745, Augusta County, Virginia served as a haven for Scotch-Irish, German, and, to a lesser extent, English immigrants who failed to find economic opportunity or religious freedom in the colonial settlements along the Middle Atlantic coastline. This little known but important work contains detailed genealogies of the twenty families mentioned in the title of the work, who settled in that region of "old western Augusta" that today encompasses Bath and Highland counties, Virginia. In addition to the family histories, the compiler has provided introductory chapters on the history of German and Scotch-Irish settlement to the region; a table of family members who fought in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Civil Wars, and a full name index with approximately 10,000 entries.
Box Set: Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor
Here, from New York Times bestselling biographer Grace May Carter, are the extraordinary lives of Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor. Ingrid Bergman emerges as a devoted artist whose refusal to be a caricature caused her endless trouble - but also produced brilliant performances, from her early role opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca to her profound and final appearance as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. In between, there were four children (including actress Isabella Rossellini), three husbands, and passionate affairs with war photographer Robert Capa, Wizard of Oz director Victor Fleming, and Spellbound co-star Gregory Peck. She was perhaps the most...
Letters from England
Reproduction of the original: Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
Betsy Cadwaladyr
Elizabeth Davis - known in Wales as Betsy Cadwaladyr - was a ladies' maid from Mayrionydd who travelled the world and gained fame as a nurse during the Crimean war. She broke free of the restrictions placed on women in Victorian times to lead a life of adventure. Journeying to many exotic parts of the globe, she came into contact with international events in the horrors of the filled hospital at Balaclava, where she served under Florence Nightingale. Williams interviewed the elderly Betsy and turned her reminiscences into this fascinating account of her life.
Kentucky Marriage Records
Except for a series of newspaper abstracts by G. Glenn Clift, this volume contains every list of marriages known to have been published in "The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" since 1903. The following nineteen of Kentucky's oldest counties are represented, some of which, either in whole or in part, spawned a great many later counties: Barren, Bourbon, Christian, Floyd, Franklin, Grant, Greenup, Hardin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Montgomery, Muhlenberg, Nelson, Pike, Shelby, Union, and Woodford. Based on courthouse records--primarily marriage bonds, licenses, ministers' returns, and marriage registers--the combined lists, which are fully indexed, contain references to approximately 50,000 persons!
The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladyr
Primarily an account of foreign travel and of nursing during the Crimean War ; includes criticism of Florence Nightingale.
