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Hope and Glory
Clara’s origins were far from grand. Her father was a trawlerman and she would have been born at sea had he not made an emergency landing near Brighton. The Butts, who went on to have ten more children, soon moved to Bristol, a city that remained close to Clara’s heart until the end of her days. Recognising her burgeoning talent, the local community clubbed together to support Clara’s training after she was offered a prestigious scholarship at the Royal College of Music. To show her gratitude, Clara later chose to be married at Bristol Cathedral, even though she had been offered St. Paul’s in London. Such was her fame by this stage, Sir Arthur Sullivan composed an anthem for the occa...
Kathleen
Kathleen Ferrier has a reputation as the greatest lyric contralto of the twentiety century. Her story, from her humble beginnings as a telephone operator in Blackburn to the height of international fame as one of the world's leading concert artists and her untimely death at the age of forty-one, is told told with compelling insight and perception, using a variety of sources, from photographs, diaries, and private letters to the memoirs and recollections of those who knew her best. Despite having no formal musical training, Kathleen worked with all the celebrated conductors of the time, and is remembered for her performances of music by Brahms, Schubert and Mahler, as well as a handful of operatic roles. Enlarging considerably on many alternative biographies, this excellent account captures the warmth, humour and charm of a figure whose astonishing life and career proved to be, sadly, all too brief.
Montgomery Clift
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Life of St Leonard of Port - Maurice
A HOPE was once expressed to a religious, desirous of publishing some documents on monastic history, that his work “Might prove fruitful of good,” the underlying intimation being that possibly it might not. The present writer has been constantly beset, whilst writing these pages, with a similar fear. What, it may well be asked, is the use of putting before us today the example of one who, though modern in the ranks of the Saints, was most certainly what is called contemptuously, I fear a medievalist, a man who followed old-time ways and customs, and sought to perpetuate them? True, Leonard was beyond all question a great missioner, a prolific giver of Retreats, a popular preacher, and as...
Mae West
Mae West was the archetypal film star and the epitome of glamor. A short, plump girl from Brooklyn who aspired to stardom, she shot to international fame as an outlandish sex goddess, yet her road to stardom was rocky. Now top TV producer and distinguished biographer Maurice Leonard brings to life the real Mae West--her audacity, her courage, her genius. Photographs.
I Wanted Wings
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People from the Other Side
Kate, Leah, and Margaret Fox were three young sisters living in upstate New York in the middle of the 19th century who discovered an apparent ability to communicate with spirits. When this became known, they quickly found themselves at the core of an emerging spiritualist movement, and their public seances in New York City were attended by many. Maurice Leonard’s account of the lives of the Foxes is a fascinating and informative look at the birth and early days of spiritualism, a belief that remains popular to this day.
