The Reluctant Widow

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-28
ISBN : 1446456579
Pages : 290 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (446 users)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Widow written by Georgette Heyer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 'Brims with elegance, wit and historical accuracy' Daily Mail 'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris _____________ When she steps inside the wrong carriage in a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale little knows that she is about to embark on a thrilling and dangerous adventure. Overnight the would-be governess becomes the mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name. By midnight she is a bride; by dawn a widow. _____________ Readers love The Reluctant Widow ... ***** 'I love Georgette Heyer - fun plots, fun characters,good dialogue. This is one of my favourites.' ***** '[The Reluctant Widow] made such an impression on me that I still remember it after all these years.' ***** 'This was an absolute delight.' ***** 'Fun, unexpected plot that continues through the whole book.' ***** 'Georgette Heyer is still the best; this has a real plot, an unusual one at that, characters that are interesting as individuals, and is still a really good read.'

GEORGETTE HEYER THE RELUCTANT WIDOW

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Release Date : 1946
ISBN :
Pages : 390 pages
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The Reluctant Widow

by Georgette Heyer

Publisher : Harpercollins
Release Date : 1994-05-01
ISBN : 9780061001550
Pages : 352 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (1 users)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Widow written by Georgette Heyer and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Eustace Cheviot may have been a scoundrel and a drunkard, but he was Elinor Rochdale's only hope. The destitute widow was drawn into the marriage scheme by Cheviot's own cousin, dashing Lord Carlyon. Casting her pride aside, she married the ailing Cheviot and soon became the sole heiress of Highnoons.

The Reluctant Widow

by Georgette Heyer

Publisher :
Release Date : 2002
ISBN :
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (93 users)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Widow written by Georgette Heyer and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impoverished governess applies for a post and arrives at the wrong house. By midnight she is a married to the ailing owner, by dawn she is a widow. Overnight the would-be governess becomes mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a conspiracy to save a family's name.

The Reluctant Widow

by Betty Lee Johnson

Publisher :
Release Date : 2002-11-01
ISBN : 9781403318275
Pages : 256 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (318 users)

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Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction

by Samantha J. Rayner

Publisher : UCL Press
Release Date : 2021-02-25
ISBN : 1787357600
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (787 users)

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Download or read book Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction written by Samantha J. Rayner and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nonesuch is the name of one of Georgette Heyer’s most famous novels. It means a person or thing without equal, and Georgette Heyer is certainly that. Her historical works inspire a fiercely loyal, international readership and are championed by literary figures such as A. S. Byatt and Stephen Fry. Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction brings together an eclectic range of chapters from scholars all over the world to explore the contexts of Heyer’s career. Divided into four parts – gender; genre; sources; and circulation and reception – the volume draws on scholarship on Heyer and her contemporaries to show how her work sits in a chain of influence, and why it remains pertinent to current conversations on books and publishing in the twenty-first century. Heyer’s impact on science fiction is accounted for, as are the milieu she was writing in, the many subsequent works that owe Heyer’s writing a debt, and new methods for analysing these enduring books. From the gothic to data science, there is something for everyone in this volume; a celebration of Heyer’s ‘nonesuch’ status amongst historical novelists, proving that she and her contemporary women writers deserve to be read (and studied) as more than just guilty pleasures.

The Reluctant Widow

by Georgette Heyer

Publisher : Berkley
Release Date : 1977-11-15
ISBN : 9780425037898
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (37 users)

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The Reluctant Widow

by Georgette Heyer

Publisher :
Release Date : 1949
ISBN :
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (43 users)

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Chronicles of a Reluctant Widow

by Carolyn Hilliard

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Release Date : 1996
ISBN : 9780722329207
Pages : 173 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (329 users)

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Georgette Heyer Biography

by Jennifer Kloester

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-06
ISBN : 1446473368
Pages : 480 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (446 users)

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Download or read book Georgette Heyer Biography written by Jennifer Kloester and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _________________________ The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued. A remarkable biography of one of Britain's best-loved and best-selling novelists, 'the queen of Regency romance'. Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international bestseller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's bestselling authors. Despite her enormous popularity she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was seventeen in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success and it has never been out of print. A phenomenon even in her own lifetime, to this day she is the undisputed queen of regency romance. During ten years of research into Georgette Heyer's life and writing, Jennifer Kloester has had unlimited access to Heyer's notebooks and private papers and the Heyer family records, and exclusive access to several untapped archives of Heyer's early letters.

The Reluctant Widow

by Marie Higgins

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-08-19
ISBN : 9781725947184
Pages : 154 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (947 users)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Widow written by Marie Higgins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widowed not just once... not just twice... but three times, Summer Black isn't about to pursue marriage again. She hears the whispers around town. The suspicion that she's a cursed widow, and she's intent to live out the rest of her days in solitude, sheltered from anymore heartache. However, when her driver runs over a strange man, Summer is honor bound to care for him, and she learns that fate might just have other plans for her. Will she listen? Or close herself off to new and promising possibilities forever? Jesse Montgomery's family is falling apart. One year after the death of his father, bill collectors are hounding his mother, and a fire has destroyed the family's only source of income. Destitute and desperate, Jesse's only hope is to beg his cousin's widow for a loan. He'll do anything to save his family... even make a bargain with the cursed widow.

Republic of Women

by Carol Pal

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-07
ISBN : 1139510754
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (139 users)

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Download or read book Republic of Women written by Carol Pal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republic of Women recaptures a lost chapter in the narrative of intellectual history. It tells the story of a transnational network of female scholars who were active members of the seventeenth-century republic of letters and demonstrates that this intellectual commonwealth was a much more eclectic and diverse assemblage than has been assumed. These seven scholars - Anna Maria van Schurman, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, Dorothy Moore, Bathsua Makin and Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh - were philosophers, schoolteachers, reformers and mathematicians. They hailed from England, Ireland, Germany, France and The Netherlands. And together with their male colleagues - men like Descartes, Huygens, Hartlib and Montaigne - they represented the spectrum of contemporary approaches to science, faith, politics and the advancement of learning. Carol Pal uses their collective biography to reconfigure the intellectual biography of early modern Europe, offering a new, expanded analysis of the seventeenth-century community of ideas.

Casting Might-Have-Beens

by Eila Mell

Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2015-01-24
ISBN : 1476609764
Pages : 350 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (476 users)

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Download or read book Casting Might-Have-Beens written by Eila Mell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some acting careers are made by one great role and some fall into obscurity when one is declined. Would Al Pacino be the star he is today if Robert Redford had accepted the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather? Imagine Tom Hanks rejecting Uma Thurman, saying that she acted like someone in a high school play when she auditioned to play opposite him in The Bonfire of the Vanities. Picture Danny Thomas as The Godfather, or Marilyn Monroe as Cleopatra. This reference work lists hundreds of such stories: actors who didn’t get cast or who turned down certain parts. Each entry, organized alphabetically by film title, gives the character and actor cast, a list of other actors considered for that role, and the details of the casting decision. Information is drawn from extensive research and interviews. From About Last Night (which John Belushi turned down at his brother’s urging) to Zulu (in which Michael Caine was not cast because he didn’t look “Cockney” enough), this book lets you imagine how different your favorite films could have been.

Patricia Roc

by MICHAEL HODGSON

Publisher : Author House
Release Date : 2013-09
ISBN : 1481769405
Pages : 229 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (481 users)

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Download or read book Patricia Roc written by MICHAEL HODGSON and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace'

by Gill Plain

Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-10
ISBN : 0748631518
Pages : 312 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (748 users)

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Download or read book Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace' written by Gill Plain and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation This study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters - Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomising - the book sets middlebrow and popular writers alongside residual modernists and new voices to reconstruct the literary landscape of the period. Detailed case studies of fiction, drama and poetry provide fresh critical perspectives on writers as diverse as Margery Allingham, Alexander Baron, Elizabeth Bowen, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, Graham Greene, Georgette Heyer, Alun Lewis, Nancy Mitford, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, J. B. Priestley, Terence Rattigan, Mary Renault, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas and Evelyn Waugh. Key Features Detailed and theoretically informed case studies of canonical writers such as Bowen, Orwell, Greene and Waugh Case studies and critical re-evaluations of popular genre writers and forgotten writers

Directors in British and Irish Cinema

by Robert Murphy

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-25
ISBN : 1838715339
Pages : 672 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (838 users)

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Download or read book Directors in British and Irish Cinema written by Robert Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.

Guide to British Cinema

by Geoff Mayer

Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 9780313303074
Pages : 472 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book Guide to British Cinema written by Geoff Mayer and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives the reader and researcher a full sense of the depth and variety of British cinema from 1929 through the present day, with entries on all major British actors and directors as well as significant and successful films and genres.