Behind The Doors Of Notorious Covent Garden

Author : Elizabeth Sharland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440184994

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Behind the Doors of Notorious Covent Garden by Elizabeth Sharland Pdf

Covent Garden, the cultural heart of London, is notorious for its history, ghosts, and the Old Market. Discover the special places unique to this area. It would be interesting to read about the latest fashionable shops, popular pubs and hotels that existed in Covent Garden a hundred years ago but there is no accurate record as far as I know. This book, therefore, may be of interest in 100 years hence when we are all gone. There are biographies of the people who lived and worked here of course, and some of the restaurants and theatres they visited are still in existence, but in 100 years time, they may be all gone, too. While doing research for this book I came across the writings of theatre people, who had lived and worked in Covent Garden, when I was a student, and who had inspired me, although they were a little before my time. They have a chapter in this book. Clemence Dane, (Winifred Ashton) Alan Dent, Angus McBean, James Agate all wrote about the area and their stories make fascinating reading.

Author : Elizabeth Sharland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781462024223

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The Private Life of George Bernard Shaw by Elizabeth Sharland Pdf

This play concerns the fascinating personal life of one of the most famous playwrights in British literature. His relationship with actresses were many, including the beautiful Ellen Terry, the brilliant Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the volatile Florence Farr, as well as women politicians, suffragettes, and young students. His marriage to Charlotte Payne Townsend was revealing in that she was his muse, nurse, secretary, as well as being his wife.

Author : Elizabeth Sharland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781663216342

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Steve Ross Cabaret Also the Author's Memories of Paris by Elizabeth Sharland Pdf

Steve Ross is the Crown Prince of New York Cabaret and has created the highest standard of performing cabaret internationally. He has played across the World, in Japan, Brazil, Australia, India, Venice, London and Paris with the most brilliant singers guest starring often and he also has lectured at many Universities and private Clubs across the country. Please see his website at www.steveross.net

Author : Elizabeth Sharland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475923148

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Love Beyond the Footlights by Elizabeth Sharland Pdf

Nicoles story tells of her climb to stardom from her student days at drama school, her first job, working for the National Theatre, a Broadway run, marriage and divorce. When her beloved Michael deserts her, her entire career is in jeopardy as she struggles to come to terms with the effect her career is having on her private life.

Author : Elizabeth Sharland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450281522

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On the Riviera by Elizabeth Sharland Pdf

But I think that Life, and with that I also mean Love, comes firstits the only thing that one has in the final secondsthe knowledge that one has had time, and sense, to live, breath, love and enjoy the time one has been given I expect that all sounds a bit soppy me sitting on a hill in France and not being in a lovely lane near Cockshott! But I do KNOW, I have been there myselfand I have never been surer. For me, at any rate. DIRK BOGARDE In the south of France, when the Scott Fitzgeralds, the Murphys, Picasso, and Jean Cocteau lived and worked during the Jazz Age, the French Riviera became famous. Now, Nicole Bennett goes there to retrace their steps and try to discover who followed after them. Disenchanted with her award-winning acting career as well as her one-year marriage to Nigel, she seeks to make a significant change in her life. She leaves London and attempts to fulfill her dream of writing a book about the writers who lived and worked in the south of France. In Cannes, she meets new people and falls in love with the incredible scenery. While rediscovering the charm and magic of the Riviera, she is influenced by other writersGraham Green, Dirk Bogarde, Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway who once walked the same streets and enjoyed the same experiences. Its now up to Nicole to recreate the magic they all found.

Author : Elizabeth Sharland-Jones
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781491794081

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Across the Seas by Elizabeth Sharland-Jones Pdf

Travel has always been a large part of her life: in Volume One of Classical Destinations, she recounts her travels to home and studios of composers and artists across Europe, including George Sand, Noel Coward, and Franco Zeffirelli. In this new sequel, she visits the legendary hotels where famous writers enjoyed staying, including the Hotel du Cap in Antibes, discovered by Sarah and Gerald Murphy, the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, and the Villa Cimbronne in Ravello.

Author : India Grey
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426869785

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Emily and the Notorious Prince by India Grey Pdf

She fled from her fairy-tale lifestyle when she'd discovered it was built on lies. Now naive Emily Balfour is struggling to make ends meet. Prince Luis Cordoba instantly recognizes the Balfour heiress—the only woman who didn't fall at his feet! Penniless Emily can't refuse the offer of a roof over her head—even knowing she'll be sharing the playboy's bed! Whisked away to his royal kingdom, inexperienced Emily is no match for Luis's potent sexuality. But her heart is warning her not to become just another notch on his regal bedpost!

Author : Charles Warren
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819562904

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Beyond Document by Charles Warren Pdf

Critics and writers consider nonfiction film both as document and as creative work with strong artistic, political, and moral implications. In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics, and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum of nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema-verité, memoir and autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent important work like Film about a Woman Who. . ., Harlan County, U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss. Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in courtrooms and in Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions the filmmaker's "impulse to preserve" ; and poet Susan Howe explores structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All the book's essays provide deeply felt understanding of documentary film, and of how we live with, an d within, images. CONTRIBUTORS: Jay Cantor, Robert Gardener, Patricia Hampl, Maureen Howard, Susan Howe, Helene Keyssar, Phillip Lopatte, Vlada Petric, William Rothman, Charles Warren, Eliot Weinberger.

Author : Andrew KNAPP
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023166987

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The Newgate Calendar; comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England since the commencement of the eighteenth century; with anecdotes ... and last exclamations of sufferers by Andrew KNAPP Pdf

Author : Anthony Capella
Publisher : McArthur & Co
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Fin de siecle
ISBN : 9781552789377

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The Various Flavours of Coffee by Anthony Capella Pdf

It is a cup of coffee that changes Robert Wallis’s life — and a very bad cup of coffee at that. The impoverished poet is sitting in a London coffeehouse contemplating an uncertain future when he meets Samuel Pinker. The coffee merchant offers Wallis a job employing his palate and talent for words to compose a “vocabulary of coffee” based on its many subtle and elusive flavours. As Willis finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his coworker, Pinker’s spirited daughter Emily. Their love is tested when Wallis is dispatched on a journey to North Africa in search of the legendary Arab mocca. As he travels to coffee’s fabled birthplace — and learns the fiercely guarded secrets of the trade — Wallis meets Fikre, the defiant, seductive slave of a powerful coffee merchant, who serves him in the traditional Abyssinian coffee ceremony. And when Fikre dares to slip Wallis a single coffee bean, the mysteries of coffee and forbidden passion intermingle…and combine to change history and fate.

Author : Bruce Alexander
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440625213

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The Price of Murder by Bruce Alexander Pdf

Experience the dangerous intrigue of Georgian England in this novel in Bruce Alexander's acclaimed historical mystery series featuring Sir John Fielding. When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, blind magistrate Sir John Fielding’s investigation leads his protégé, Jeremy Proctor, into the notorious Seven Dials section of London. There the sordid inclinations of both the working class and aristocracy may be found—and there, Jeremy learns that the girl’s mother has disappeared near the racetrack. As he delves further into the mystery, he will begin to realize just how high the stakes are, and—when an acquaintance of his own suddenly vanishes—just how terribly steep the odds really are.

Author : Erica Vetsch
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780825446184

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The Gentleman Spy by Erica Vetsch Pdf

He only wanted a duchess for a day--but she's determined to make it a marriage for life When his father and older brother suddenly pass away, the new Duke of Haverly is saddled with a title he never expected to bear. To thwart the plans of his scheming family, the duke impulsively marries a wallflower. After all, she's meek and mild; it should be easy to sequester her in the country and get on with his life--as a secret agent for the Crown. But his bride has other ideas. She's determined to take her place not only as his duchess but as his wife. As a duchess, she can use her position to help the lowest of society--the women forced into prostitution because they have no skills or hope. Her endeavors are not met favorably in society, nor by her husband who wishes she'd remain in the background as he ordered. Can the duke succeed in relegating her to the sidelines of his life? When his secrets are threatened with exposure, will his new wife be an asset or a liability?

Author : Royal Historical Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815606

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 11 by Royal Historical Society Pdf

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.

Author : Jane Feather
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307430915

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Venus by Jane Feather Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling Jane Feather, author of To Kiss a Spy and Kissed by Shadows, comes a deliciously sensual tale of intrigue and temptation… The last thing Lord Nicholas Kincaid expected to see in the gloom of a London tavern was a vision of loveliness. And when she led him to a bedchamber with a come-hither smile, there was no question of resisting—until he realized the lying wench meant to render him senseless so the landlord could rob him blind! That’s how the handsome lord made the acquaintance of Miss Polly Wyat, a ravishing beauty he soon decided would make the perfect spy. Unwittingly, she would infiltrate the inner circle at the king’s court. But when Nicholas sets out to bind Polly with chains of passion, he’ll find himself hard-pressed not to be bewitched…or to fall in love.

Author : Edwin Beresford Chancellor
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Covent Garden
ISBN : UOM:39015005882082

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The Annals of Covent Garden and Its Neighbourhood by Edwin Beresford Chancellor Pdf