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A Cotswold Family
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A Cotswold Family: Hicks and Hicks Beach
The Hicks and Hicks Beach family, part of the English nobility, between the 1300s and 1900 in various parts of England, particularly Gloucester County.
A Cotswold Family
Excerpt from A Cotswold Family: Hicks and Hicks Beach IT will be Obvious enough to anyone who reads it, that A Cotswold Family could never have been written unless I had made myself troublesome to a great number of people; but when I look through its pages I realise that a list of all those to whom my thanks are due would be an endless one. Two people, however, must be named. Without the invaluable help of Miss Ethel Grogan, the documents in the Record Office and the British Museum could never have been deciphered by me and gratitude to Viscount St. Aldwyn for his careful criticism and his corrections of details must certainly be recorded. To Hicks and Hicks Beach ghosts I offer an apology f...
A Cotswold Family
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The Wandering Princess
Helene was a strong-willed princess, raised in France but closely connected with the court of Queen Victoria. After the premature end to a romance with Victoria's grandson, she married into the royal family of Italy. However, Helene began extended adventuresome trips into Africa where she became a big-game hunter, explorer and travel writer, escaping from an unhappy marriage and the boredom of court life. Her travels took her around the world, but her sense of royal duty brought her back to nurse aboard a hospital ship in Libyan waters, then to an important role as head of the Italian Red Cross nurses during the First World War while her husband headed Italy's Third Army, and her two sons served in the artillery and the navy. Afterwards, her strong Italian nationalism made her an ally to Gabriele d'Annunzio and Benito Mussolini, but the disastrous Second World War saw her grandchildren interned in Austria and her older son die as a British prisoner-of-war while she continued her charitable work in Naples. When the country voted to become a republic in 1946, Helene was the only member of the royal family allowed to remain in Italy with her second 'secret' husband.
Wives and Daughters
Told through the stories, journals and personal letters of the women of the powerful Fox family, Wives and Daughters is a window into the daily lives and experiences of women of eighteenth-century aristocratic society and the country houses that symbolized the power and taste of eighteenth-century Britain. Combining personality with historical setting and detail, Joanna Martin traces the lives of fifteen individual women in their four country houses through several generations, in society and at home. Taking an intimate and personal look at courtship, marriage, childbirth, education, houses and gardens, reading, hobbies, travel and health, this book is an engrossing account of woman's lives in this fascinating time.
Reviewing Sex
Thompson (English, Kingston U., England) examines some 100 19th- century reviews of four novels published between 1847 and 1857: Charles Reade's It Is Never Too Late To Mend; Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers; and Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe. She observes that some male Victorian authors suffered from the gender hierarchies of Victorian literary criticism, and that some women writers benefitted from gendered evaluations. Includes bandw illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
