The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton
Author: Magdalen King-Hall
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Category : Popular literature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton
Author: Magdalen King-Hall
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Category : Photoplay editions
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton
Author: Rowland Hughes
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 1909291374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds escape from the tedium of her life by leading a double life as a highway robber. Rich in historical detail and high on melodrama, the novel follows Barbara's infamous career of robbery, adultery and murder, without painting her entirely as a monster. Indeed, the novel's status as a bestseller owes much to King-Hall's sympathetic depiction of the frustrations of domestic life for an ambitious, intelligent woman with no means of self-expression.
The Wicked Lady Skelton
Author: Magdalen King-Hall
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Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton
Author: Magdalen King-Hall
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Historical Film
Author: Marcia Landy
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780485300963
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This aims to show how media critics and historians have written about history as portrayed in cinema and television by historical films and documentaries, focusing on what it means to "read" films historically and the colonial experience as shown in post-colonial film.
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front
Author: Paul Oldfield
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473884977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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This illustrated WWI battlefield guide explores the heroic acts honored with Victoria Crosses—and the sites where they took place—in 1918 France. Historian and battlefield tour guide Paul Oldenfield spent years researching the Victoria Cross actions of the First World War and accurately locating where each event took place. He now shares his remarkable findings with battlefield visitors and armchair historians in this fascinating series of guidebooks. This volume in the Victoria Crosses on the Western Front series covers the first Battles of the Somme in 1918, the Battle of the Lys, and other combat operation in western France. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants, while photographs of the battle sites richly illustrate the accounts. Oldfield also includes a comprehensive biography for each recipient, covering their families, education, civilian employment, military career, death, and commemoration. A host of other information, much of it published for the first time, reveals some fascinating characters, with numerous links to many famous people and events.
Women’s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity
Author: M. Joannou
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137265299
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.
Patricia Roc
Author: MICHAEL HODGSON
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1481769413
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Destined to become a star ‘Once a star, always a star – and always remembered with love’ Anna Neagle ‘A phenomenon, an unspoilt movie star who can act’ Noel Coward The archetypal British beauty, the Goddess of the Odeons’ J. Arthur Rank
Magic in Theory
Author: Peter Lamont
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 1902806506
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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A useful manual for any magician or curious spectator who wonders why the tricks seem so real, this guide examines the psychological aspects of a magician’s work. Exploring the ways in which human psychology plays into the methods of conjuring rather than focusing on the individual tricks alone, this explanation of the general principles of magic includes chapters on the use of misdirection, sleight of hand, and reconstruction, provides a better understanding of this ancient art, and offers a section on psychics that warns of their deceptive magic skills.