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The Lights Came on for Marcia Duncan
Marcia Duncan, a young girl with learning difficulties, lives with her alcoholic mother in a small terrace house on a rundown council estate. She manages to survive her non-eventful life with a mixture of hilarity, ignorance and naivety. The only solace and comfort she has outside of her own little world is her best friend Molly, who, despite not being the idol Marcia perceives, takes her under her wing, protecting and guiding her through the highs and lows of growing up, moving forward from childlike activities in the park to the likes of discos, alcohol and fashion. The day that Marcia was dragged by her mother to the doctors to find out that she was seven months pregnant changed her life ...
Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat
Drawn directly from the journals of L.M. Montgomery herself, "Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat "tells the story of the writing of "Anne of Green Gables" through the eyes of the author's constant companion, her beloved gray cat. Montgomery was an avid journal-writer. She recorded how Daffy sat on her lap as she struggled with the first draft of the book that would become a worldwide classic, and how her cat accompanied her to Ontario and to her new life when she married. Filled with gentle insight, "Lucy Maud and the Cavendish Cat "is a delight for cat lovers everywhere, and of course, for the millions of readers who love "Anne of Green Gables."
A Pastorall by Jane and Elizabeth Cavendish
THE text of A Pastorall is a romantic masque written by Jane and Elizabeth Cavendish, the young daughters of William Cavendish and step-daughters of Margaret Cavendish. A Pastorall has remained unprinted but is preserved in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University under MS. Osborn b.233, which bears the following title: "Poems, songs, and a pastorall, by the Rt honble the Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley." Though the play was listed in the works written by these two early English women playwrights, students of the drama have displayed very little curiosity regarding it, favoring the dramatic work Concealed Fancies. For those intersted in Seventeenth Century women's writing, this work contributes to the understanding of the Cavendish Circle.
Marcuia Duncan Shining Bright
In this much requested sequel to 'The Lights Came on For Marcia Duncan', the family revelations continue to surprise all. Having capsized a rather dodgy boat and given birth in the middle of the River Ellis, Marcia Duncan did not greet parenthood with delight. Hampered by learning difficulties and immobility, our favourite character accepts the world as it is and tries her very best. With never-ending support from her best friend Molly, she has successfully, (well almost), managed to raise her daughter Tanya into her eleventh year. Molly, however, is still harbouring dark secrets and as events unfold, these will inevitably surface, invading the blissful unawareness that prevents Marcia from seeing her friend as she truly is. It is here our story resumes, as life in the small terrace council house in Chalksbury bumbles along. One would say without incident, but, of course, as we all know Marcia and her accident-prone comical antics, this is just not going to happen!
State and Commonwealth
In the history of political thought, the emergence of the modern state in early modern England has usually been treated as the development of an increasingly centralizing and expansive national sovereignty. Recent work in political and social history, however, has shown that the state—at court, in the provinces, and in the parishes—depended on the authority of local magnates and the participation of what has been referred to as "the middling sort." This poses challenges to scholars seeking to describe how the state was understood by contemporaries of the period in light of the great classical and religious textual traditions of political thought. State and Commonwealth presents a new the...
The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642
The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642 is the first study to focus on the history, and the political and cultural significance, of the travels and public profile of Charles I. As well as offering a much fuller account of the king's progresses and Caroline progress entertainments than currently exists, this volumes throws fresh light on the question of Charles I's accessibility to his subjects and their concerns, and the part that this may, or may not, have played in the political conflicts which culminated in the English civil wars and Charles's overthrow. Drawing on extensive archival research, the history opens with an introduction to the early modern c...
