Glitter And Gold

Author : Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444731002

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The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan Pdf

Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home - Blenheim Palace. The 9th Duchess gives unique first-hand insight into life at the very pinnacle of English society in the Edwardian era. An unsnobbish, but often amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs and downstairs at Blenheim Palace, she is also a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties and major state occasions she attended or hosted. Here are her encounters with every important figure of the day - from Queen Victoria, Edward V11 and Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas, Prince Metternich and the young Winston Churchill. Causing a scandal by separating from the Duke after 11 years, Consuelo began her new life as philanthropist, public speaker and campaigner for women's suffrage. Her literary soirees would include H G Wells, JM Barrie and George Bernard Shaw. In 1921 she remarried aviator Jacques Balsan moving with him to a chateau in the South of France. This intimate, richly enjoyable memoir is a wonderfully revealing portrait of a golden age.

Author : Horace Field (B.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600053288

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Glitter and Gold by Horace Field (B.A.) Pdf

Author : Maddy Mara
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338743432

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Azmina the Gold Glitter Dragon (Dragon Girls #1) by Maddy Mara Pdf

Dragon Girls is a super collectible new series that celebrates the inner fire of everyday girls. We are Dragon Girls, hear us roar!Azmina, Willa, and Naomi are thrilled to learn they're Glitter Dragon Girls. Summoned to the Magic Forest by its magnificent ruler, the Tree Queen, the girls quickly find out their dragon-selves have unbelievable abilities. They can soar above the treetops, breathe glitter-y bursts of fire, and roar loud enough to shake the ground.With this newfound magic comes a big responsibility, however. As Dragon Girls, they are sworn protectors of the forest and must help keep it safe from the troublesome Shadow Sprites, who are determined to take the forest's magic for their own.

Author : Karen Harper
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062748348

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American Duchess by Karen Harper Pdf

Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess. Perfect for readers of Jennifer Robson and lovers of Downton Abbey. Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter and the gold.” On a cold November day in 1895, a carriage approaches St Thomas Episcopal Church on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. Massive crowds surge forward, awaiting their glimpse of heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt. Just 18, the beautiful bride has not only arrived late, but in tears, yet her marriage to the aloof Duke of Marlborough proceeds. Bullied into the wedding by her indomitable mother, Alva, Consuelo loves another. But a deal was made, trading some of the vast Vanderbilt wealth for a title and prestige, and Consuelo, bred to obey, realizes she must make the best of things. At Blenheim Palace, Consuelo is confronted with an overwhelming list of duties, including producing an “heir and a spare,” but her relationship with the duke quickly disintegrates. Consuelo finds an inner strength, charming everyone from debutantes to diplomats including Winston Churchill, as she fights for women’s suffrage. And when she takes a scandalous leap, can she hope to attain love at last…? From the dawning of the opulent Gilded Age, to the battles of the Second World War, American Duchess is a riveting tale of one woman’s quest to attain independence—at any price.

Author : Liz Johnson
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1432869892

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A Glitter of Gold by Liz Johnson Pdf

"When pirate wreck tour guide Anne Norris finds evidence of an undiscovered shipwreck, she seeks the help of museum director Carter Hale to uncover the truth and treasure that could save her business. But can she trust him with her secrets and her heart?"--

Author : Rebecca Coleman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912685400

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Glitterworlds by Rebecca Coleman Pdf

An original examination of the ubiquity of glitter—from bodily adornment to activist glitter bombing—and its vibrant and transformational properties. Glitter is everywhere, from crafting to makeup, from vagazelling to glitter-bombing, from fashion to fish. Glitter also gets everywhere. It sticks to what it is and isn't supposed to, and travels beyond its original uses, eliciting reactions ranging from delight to irritation. In Glitterworlds, Rebecca Coleman examines this ubiquity of glitter, following it as it moves across different popular cultural worlds and exploring its effect on understandings and experiences of gender, sexuality, class and race. Coleman investigates how girls engage with glitter in collaging workshops to imagine their futures; how glitter can adorn the outside and the inside of the body; how glitter features in the films Glitter and Precious; and how LGBTQ* activists glitter bomb homophobic and transphobic people. Throughout, Coleman attends to the plurality of politics that glitter generates, approaching this through the concepts of hope, wonder, fabulation, and prefigurative politics—all of which indicate the making of different, better worlds, although often not in ways that are straightforward or conventional. She develops an original account of future politics, where time is nonlinear and sometimes non-progressive. Coleman's argument brings together feminist cultural theory, feminist new materialisms, and theories on futures and temporality, in order to propose that we should understand glitter as a thing—vibrant, processual, transformational, and traversing boundaries between media and material, culture and nature, bodies and environments.

Author : Sean Ferguson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781329706859

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Glitter & Gold: Forgiveness & Revenge by Sean Ferguson Pdf

Glitter is a sophisticated young girl from Brooklyn who fled to VA to escape her drug addicted mother and her abusive boyfriend. She meets Diamond and the Pretty Gang and begins a life of crime and seduction. She falls in love with a street boss from VA who is just as ruthless as her. As secrets get exposed and trust is tested there is only one outcome. Either forgiveness or revenge...

Author : Melanie Mills
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780698154520

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Glitter and Glam by Melanie Mills Pdf

Dazzling Makeup Tips for Date Night, Club Night, and Beyond Maximize the glam, access your inner diva, grab the glitter, and get excited about makeup! With stunning photos, featuring stars like Jennette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, Brandy, and Willa Ford, and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, Melanie Mills shows you the makeup techniques for creating fun, trendsetting looks inspired by rock ’n’ roll vixens and fairy tale characters. She inspires you to experiment with stunning makeup for all occasions, from a party or a night out with friends to a special date or anytime you want to amplify your look. Melanie offers advice on makeup for any skin tone, and shows you how to master color combinations, taking you through a rainbow of shades to inspire you to break out of your everyday color palette. These looks are stunning, sometimes wild, and guaranteed to make a statement!

Author : Greg Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-16
Category : Myth in literature
ISBN : 0971231168

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Tolkien in Perspective, Sifting the Gold from the Glitter by Greg Wright Pdf

Over the last fifty years, The Lord of the Rings has been lauded as "The Book of the Twentieth Century" and called "required reading in every Christian household." It has been attacked by literary critics and religious leaders. Its detractors are many; its defenders are legion. But there is another option. "The chief purpose of life, for any one of us," J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks." Greg Wright, prolific Tolkien scholar at hollywoodjesus.com, applies the biblical principle of consecration to Tolkien's fantasy. From this perspective, he shows that the last fifty years have greatly increased our knowledge of Middle-Earth, but at the expense of Tolkien's true aim. For many, The Lord of the Rings has proven little more than a distraction from the "chief purpose of life," while remaining a terribly neglected tool for bringing others to praise and thanks. - Back cover.

Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231516142

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Early Modern Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane Pdf

This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.

Author : Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
Publisher : Hodder
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444731002

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The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan Pdf

Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duchess of Marlborough in 1895 and took up residence in her new home - Blenheim Palace. The 9th Duchess gives unique first-hand insight into life at the very pinnacle of English society in the Edwardian era. An unsnobbish, but often amused observer of the intricate hierarchy both upstairs and downstairs at Blenheim Palace, she is also a revealing witness to the glittering balls, huge weekend parties and major state occasions she attended or hosted. Here are her encounters with every important figure of the day - from Queen Victoria, Edward V11 and Queen Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas, Prince Metternich and the young Winston Churchill. Causing a scandal by separating from the Duke after 11 years, Consuelo began her new life as philanthropist, public speaker and campaigner for women's suffrage. Her literary soirees would include H G Wells, JM Barrie and George Bernard Shaw. In 1921 she remarried aviator Jacques Balsan moving with him to a chateau in the South of France. This intimate, richly enjoyable memoir is a wonderfully revealing portrait of a golden age.

Author : Florentino H. Hornedo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Batan (Philippine people)
ISBN : UOM:39015052622100

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The Glitter of Gold in Batanes Cultural Heritage by Florentino H. Hornedo Pdf

Author : Alexandra Anderson-Spivy,Robert Kushner,Holland Cotter
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 155595121X

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Robert Kushner by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy,Robert Kushner,Holland Cotter Pdf

Robert Kushner's aim as an artist has been "to please the eye and thereby satisfy the human soul." This magnificent new midcareer survey proves how well he has succeeded during twenty-five years that have included flamboyant early performance and fabric pieces; a period as a leader of the Pattern and Decoration movement; his return to the figure in the 1980s; up to his current concentration on flower and other still lifes of unmatched sensuality and opulence. These recent works celebrate the cycle of creation and destruction, the fruition, decay, and renewal that compose the eternal rhythm of natural life. 96 colour & 31 b/w illustrations

Author : Fred Mustard Stewart
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451167090

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Glitter and the Gold by Fred Mustard Stewart Pdf

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Author : Fred Mustard Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451973143

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Glitter and Gold 27 by Fred Mustard Stewart Pdf