Chelsea Wives And Their Mistresses

Author : Sarah Bramley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783065196

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Chelsea Wives and their Mistresses by Sarah Bramley Pdf

Previously published by Quartet, Chelsea Wives and their Mistresses is being re-released in 2014 as a revised and updated second edition, adding greater depth to the story and racier scenes. With hints of Jilly Cooper and Jackie Collins, this is a scintillating read packed with scandal and sex. Cara Brooks, a high-flying property developer, has everything she could possibly desire – apart from passion. Tired of her rocky relationship with husband David, she’s overwhelmed upon meeting Sirena, a young, beautiful woman, one evening in a Mayfair hotel bar. Cara knows she has to make life changes, but is unsure whether she can enter into a serious relationship with a woman, particularly when she knows David’s family secret – a secret she has promised to never divulge. While battling her conflicting emotions, she lies to those she cares about most. Her desire for true happiness will bring complications into her otherwise carefree life. But does she really know what she truly wants? Can she risk everything for her own pursuit of passion? Meanwhile, Elle Milne-Smith knows only too well that with her sultry beauty she can have anything she wants. She embraces her fulfilling family life with her second husband Makram and her two wonderful children. But she is also secretly involved with gorgeous twenty-something Lyra, who means more to her than she lets on to close friends. Makram and Lyra satisfy all her needs, but when a series of unexpected problems appear, her indulgent lifestyle is turned upside down. Cara and Elle appear to have it all behind the closed doors of London’s wealthiest addresses, but when is everything not quite enough? After all, one really does need variety in life... Chelsea Wives and their Mistresses is a gripping adult novel that sheds light on a part of society that generally isn’t covered in mainstream media, whilst reflecting today’s society and the more relaxed attitude to celebrities coming out. Lesbian relationships are rarely the central focus in mainstream novels – Sarah Bramley is the new face of women's fiction, heralding a new genre.

Author : Anna-Lou Weatherley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847563316

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Chelsea Wives by Anna-Lou Weatherley Pdf

Desperate Housewives meets First Wives Club, set in the glamorous borough of Chelsea. On the King’s Road, revenge is sweeter than champagne...

Author : Amy Licence
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445633794

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The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII by Amy Licence Pdf

The story of the six wives of Henry VIII from the viewpoint of the women themselves

Author : Candace Shaw
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460333426

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Her Perfect Candidate by Candace Shaw Pdf

Campaign of seduction Co-owner of an up-and-coming interior-decorating firm, Megan Chase loves being a single woman on the fast track to success. But everything changes when a flat tire brings Georgia senator Steven Monroe into her life. The sinfully sexy politician needs the right woman to clean up his image. And with Megan's fine eye for detail, she just may be the woman for the job. Steven's reputation as a player could cost him his chance at a U.S. senate seat. But when the cameras catch him and Megan in a kiss that's all too real, it's not only his future candidacy in jeopardy. As the lines between politics and desire begin to blur, how much will he risk to transform their passionate pretense into a landslide for love?

Author : Alfred Beaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Chelsea (London, England)
ISBN : NYPL:33433081654547

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Memorials of Old Chelsea by Alfred Beaver Pdf

Author : Kathleen Rooney
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557289490

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Live Nude Girl by Kathleen Rooney Pdf

Collects essays about the years the author spent as a professional nude model.

Author : Suzanne Leonard
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479802517

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Wife, Inc. by Suzanne Leonard Pdf

A fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America After a half century of battling for gender equality, women have been freed from the necessity of securing a husband for economic stability, sexual fulfillment, or procreation. Marriage is a choice, and increasingly women (and men) are opting out. Yet despite these changes, the cultural power of marriage has burgeoned. What was once an obligation has become an exclusive club into which heterosexual women with the right amount of self-discipline may win entry. The newly exalted professionalized wife is no longer reliant on her husband’s status or money; instead she can wield her own power provided she can successfully manage the business of being a wife. Wife, Inc. tells a fiercely contemporary story revealing that today’s wives do not labor in kitchens or even homes. Instead, the work of wifedom occurs in online dating sites, on reality television, in social media, and on the campaign trail. Dating, marital commitment, and married life have been reconfigured. No longer the stuff of marriage vows, these realms are now controlled by brand management and marketability. To prosper, women must appear confident, empowered, and sexually savvy. Guiding readers through the stages of the “wife-cycle,” Suzanne Leonard follows women as they date, prepare to wed, and toil as wives, using examples from popular television, film, and literature, as well as mass market news, women’s magazines, new media, and advice culture. The first major study to focus on this new definition of “working wives,” Wife, Inc. reveals how marriage occupies a newly professionalized role in the lives of American women. Being a wife is a business that takes a lot more than a vow to maintain—this book tells that story.

Author : Margarette Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131647682

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Naval Wives & Mistresses by Margarette Lincoln Pdf

An innovative study of naval women who stayed at home while their men went to sea. Focusing on the second half of the 18th century, a period when Britain was almost continuously at war, this book looks at different social groups, from the aristocratic elite to the labouring and criminal poor, prostitutes and petty thieves.

Author : Doris Mary Stenton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000562385

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The English Woman in History by Doris Mary Stenton Pdf

First published in 1957, The English Woman in History displays the place women have held and the influence they have exerted within the changing pattern of English society. Ever since the days of Queen Elizabeth I the position of women in English society has been a matter of general debate. In the seventeenth century many men produced books in praise of women, following the example of Thomas Heywood. Most of these books were devoted to the praises of individual women, but their authors generally produced arguments against subjection of all women to the unthinking dominance of men. While married women were still legally subject to their husbands and no women were allowed to take part in public affairs it was impossible to write objectively about women’s place in the world. The women who at the end of the seventeenth century began to write were generally fired by a sense of injustice, and men tended to write condescendingly of charm and beauty, which interested them more than intelligence and wit. Now that women are bearing public responsibilities with success it is possible for historians to look back dispassionately over the centuries and trace the stages by which this position has been won. It is a survey of this nature which Lady Stenton has attempted in this book. This is a must read for students and scholars of women’s history, gender studies and women’s movement.

Author : Suzanne Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0491030975

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Wives and Mistresses by Suzanne Morris Pdf

Told through the lives of 4 very different women, a saga that traces 100 years of conflict between two Texas families.

Author : Sarah Costello
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480927100

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Fall from Grace by Sarah Costello Pdf

Fall from Grace By Sarah Costello Samantha has had a difficult and complicated past. Still, she overcame the odds against her and became a successful college student. She spent her life handling each obstacle that has fallen before her with maturity and grace. Those who knew her best expected nothing but a positive future for her. A series of unexpected and unfortunate events begin to take place, altering her destined path and taking her on a journey away from her home and those who love her, and the person she cares for most deeply. How will Samantha handle these new challenges? Hers is a story of strength and growth.

Author : Daniel Joseph Kirwan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PSU:000019116730

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Palace and Hovel, Or, Phases of London Life by Daniel Joseph Kirwan Pdf

Author : Daniel Joseph Kirwan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : London (England)
ISBN : UIUC:30112083970092

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Palace and Hovel by Daniel Joseph Kirwan Pdf

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780220666

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The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser Pdf

Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England. Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.

Author : Paul Delany
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773582781

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Fatal Glamour by Paul Delany Pdf

Rupert Brooke (b. 1887) died on April 23, 1915, two days before the start of the Battle of Gallipoli, and three weeks after his poem "The Soldier" was read from the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Sunday. Thus began the myth of a man whose poetry crystallizes the sentiments that drove so many to enlist and assured those who remained in England that their beloved sons had been absolved of their sins and made perfect by going to war. In Fatal Glamour, Paul Delany details the person behind the myth to show that Brooke was a conflicted, but magnetic figure. Strikingly beautiful and able to fascinate almost everyone who saw him - from Winston Churchill to Henry James - Brooke was sexually ambivalent and emotionally erratic. He had a series of turbulent affairs with women, but also a hidden gay life. He was attracted by the Fabian Society’s socialist idealism and Neo-Pagan innocence, but could be by turns nasty, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic. Brooke’s emotional troubles were acutely personal and also acutely typical of Edwardian young men formed by the public school system. Delany finds a thread of consistency in the character of someone who was so well able to move others, but so unable to know or to accept himself. A revealing biography of a singular personality, Fatal Glamour also uses Brooke’s life to shed light on why the First World War began and how it unfolded.