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Britten's Century: Celebrating 100 Years of Britten by Mark Bostridge
Category: Film
Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song. Biographically, this book moves ...Show more
Florence Nightingale : The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge
Category: Biography Memoir
The soldier's saviour, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer - and much else besides - Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognisable. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean Wa ...Show more
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge
Category: Biography
'SUPERB' Sunday Times 'ENGROSSING' History Today 'EXCELENT'Spectator 'ENTHRALLING' GuardianWHO WAS THE LADY WITH THE LAMP? WHERE DID THE LEGEND COME FROM? AND WHAT WAS THE TRUTH?From her battles with family, doctors, nurses and the British establishment to her ceaseless work on behalf of the sick, the w ...Show more
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
Category: Biography
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, mi ...Show more
Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer (Editor); Francis Kilvert; Mark Bostridge (Introduction by)
Category: Biography
Francis Kilvert was a country clergyman who lived from 1840 to 1879, and these are his diaries: gossipy, sweet-natured, generous, curious, and full of an abiding wonder and delight in the natural world and the beauties of the changing seasons. The three volumes in this book are all that remain of his wr ...Show more
Letters from a Lost Generation First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge (eds)
Category: Biography Memoir
'Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, ...Show more
The Fateful Year: England 1914 by Mark Bostridge
Category: History
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchild ...Show more
The Fateful Year : England 1914 by Mark Bostridge
Category: History
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchild ...Show more
Vera Brittain: A Life by Mark Bostridge & Paul Berry
Category: Biography Memoir
Vera Brittain is most widely known as the woman who immortalized a lost generation in her haunting autobiography of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. Writer, pacifist and feminist, she condemned her provincial background but remained acutely conscious of the conventional elements in her own character; ...Show more
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth by Mark Bostridge
Category: Biography
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the ...Show more
Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth by Mark Bostridge
Category: Biography Memoir
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak. In the ...Show more
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