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The Grey Brethren
Michael Fairless was the pseudonym used by English Christian writer Margaret Fairless Barber (1869-1901) whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902), became a popular classic. She was born in Yorkshire, the youngest of three daughters, and was initially tutored at home by her mother and elder sisters but when her father died in 1881 she was sent to relatives in Torquay, Devon, where she attended a local school. It was here she became aware of a spinal condition that would affect the rest of her life. In 1884 she went to London to train as a nurse at a children's hospital and she also did charitable work in London's East End. However, her health continued to deteriorate, including her si...
Michael Fairless
Memoirs, by her executor and her sister, of "Michael Fairless" i.e., Margaret Fairless Barber.
ROADMENDER
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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.
Biography Index
A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction
With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.
