Sixpenny Girl

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788549462

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Sixpenny Girl by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

Saran Chandler is a locksmith's daughter but following her father's death, her happy family is torn apart and she is left to fend for herself. Luke Hipton is a workhouse orphan with a murky past who is wise beyond his years and becomes her loyal friend and companion. After the death of her father, Saran Chandler stands helplessly by as her mother and sister are sold by the vile Enoch Jacobs. But when Enoch drowns, Saran swears that she will not rest until she has secured her family's release. Penniless and alone, she barely knows where to start until she teams up with workhouse orphan Luke. Together they try to survive in the harsh environment of the industrial Midlands but before long they make both dangerous enemies who prey upon the vulnerable. Will they ever find Saran's family and their happily ever after?

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Birmingham (England)
ISBN : 0750521104

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Sixpenny Girl by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

Saran Chandler sees her mother and baby sister sold by her evil stepfather, Enoch Jacobs, and only escapes the same fate herself when Enoch falls into the canal and drowns. She is determined to reunite her family, but has no money or friends--until she meets Luke Hipton, and they build a life and business together in a miserable Black Country town. She comes into conflict with the local depraved businessman, Zadok Minch. He wants both Saran and her property, but when she discovers that he was the man who bought her family, she vows undying revenge.

Author : Judith Walkowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300183689

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Nights Out by Judith Walkowitz Pdf

London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness, liminality, and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.

Author : Catharine Augusta Howell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Birthdays
ISBN : OXFORD:590508259

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Pictures of girl life by Catharine Augusta Howell Pdf

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789542745

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Abel's Daughter by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

She will fight for her father's legacy against those determined to destroy her... Abel Pardoe's daughter Phoebe is young and in love, doted on by her mine owner father and engaged to be married to the handsome and charming Montrose Wheeler. But when Abel is killed in a freak accident Phoebe's whole world quickly crumbles around her. Still grieving, she is stunned to be convicted of a crime she didn't commit. The product of a gilded upbringing, Phoebe finds it hard to adjust to the harsh cruelty of life in the infamous Handsworth Prison. A sentence that would be even harder to bear if she knew that someone close to home had engineered her imprisonment. On her release, Phoebe vows that one day she will count for something and so she returns to the canal side house she bought with money from her grandmother, determined to help those less fortunate than herself. But little does she know, her hidden enemy is still set on revenge...

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789542776

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The Deverell Woman by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

Can a legacy of hate ever be overcome... Maura Deverell lives with her ailing mother in the beautiful Irish hamlet of Clonmacnoise, where the locals still believe in ancient magic. Their cruel landlord Seamus Riordan threatens to throw the women out of their cottage unless Maura agrees to marry his young son, Liam Riordan. But before Maura can decide, she is brutally raped by Liam's brother Padraig, who is determined to use the beautiful Maura for his own pleasure. Ireland is locked in the grips of the potato famine, but Maura though weakened by hunger, still finds the strength to defy the Riordans. On her deathbed, Maura's mother makes her promise to leave Ireland for good, whilst cursing the Riordans with her powerful magic. Escaping to Birmingham, Maura tries to rebuild her life, but all the time she longs for home. Will it ever be safe for her to return to her beloved Ireland?

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444766929

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Devil's Own Daughter by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

A feature on Old Wives' Tales is not exactly the assignment to make Kate Mallory's pulse race. She fancies herself an investigative journalist and crime reporter and has the stories under her belt to prove it. But her research throws up a vital clue to the series of arson attacks and gruesome murders that is baffling the Darlaston police force. Teaming up once more with Richard Torrey, the enigmatic man whose tough exterior conceals his intuitive psychic powers, Kate gets on the trail of a story too good to miss. But it will lead her into a deadly encounter with a ruthless woman, a coven of Satanists - and Evil incarnate.

Author : Terri Doughty
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 155111528X

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Selections from The Girl’s Own Paper, 1880-1907 by Terri Doughty Pdf

The Girl’s Own Paper, founded in 1880, both shaped and reflected tensions between traditional domestic ideologies of the period and New Woman values in the context of the figure of the New Girl. These selections from the journal demonstrate the efforts of its publisher (the Religious Tract Society) to combat the negative moral influence of sensational popular literature while at the same time addressing the desires of its audience for exciting reading material and information about topics mothers could not or would not discuss. Selected fiction gives a rich sense of the conventions and the domestic ideology of the time; the nonfiction prose ranges from essays on conduct and household management to articles on new opportunities in education and work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025255049

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A Sixpenny handbook of Wit by Anonim Pdf

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789542721

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A Handful of Silver by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

Sold into marriage, can she prove her true worth? Another heart-wrenching, gripping story from the Queen of Sagas. Banished from her father's sight and home since the age of four, wheelchair-bound Esther Kerral is horrified when she is forced into an arranged marriage with Morgan Cosmore, the son of a local factory owner. Both fathers hope the union will save their ailing businesses; little do they know that each is as bankrupt as the other. Now trapped in a loveless marriage, Esther is determined not to let her fate be decided for her. She'll build a business of her own in a man's world – even if there are many who are secretly plotting her downfall. The only man she can trust is Adam Paige, her loyal employee and true friend. With Adam by her side, Esther feels like she can do anything... but dare she hope for love?

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444766943

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The Hitch-Hiker by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

Philip Bartley stops to pick up a hitch-hiker one rainy night, hoping for sexual favours in return. But when the car crashes into a hedge, the slender, blonde figure with the seductive tongue is nowhere to be seen . . . Reverend Peter Darley has a mortal sin on his conscience, and as he struggles with his faith, he finds that even the church cannot provide sanctuary from his impure thoughts . . . A whiff of perfume, a pair of hyacinth blue eyes are oddly familiar to James Connor. Will they cause the Deputy Police Commissioner to lose his head? That is just the beginning. There are three men with one woman in common. Now that woman, Anna, is dead. Her lover Richard Torrey is determined to get at the bottom of her brutal murder and bring her killers to justice. But his investigations, helped by journalist Kate Mallory and Inspector Bruce Daniels, are hampered by a series of inexplicable events.

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444718546

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All is Not Enough by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

With mounting disbelief, Regan Trent realises that the death of her beloved mother has left her totally at her stepfather's mercy. But mercy is a foreign concept to Sherwyn Huntley. To this ruthless man, Regan is simply an obstacle between him and the Trent fortune. Denied a place at her mother's funeral, cruelly separated from her younger brother, promised in marriage to a sadistic pervert, Regan prefers to take her chance in the wide world. But Huntley will stop at nothing to achieve his cruel ambitions . . .

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444713862

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Friendship's Bond by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

He claimed to be a man of God. But he did the devil's work. Thomas Thorpe hides his carnal desires under the mask of a pious lay preacher. When Ann Spencer rejects his advances, he evicts her from her home, claiming she is living in sin with a young man not her blood relative. But Alec is a ward, not a lover. And Ann has made a promise to her dead father that she will protect the Russian boy with her life. Taken in by kind-hearted Leah Marshall, Ann and Alec repay her by working in the dairy. The two young people become substitutes for the children Leah has lost. But Thomas Thorpe will not leave them in peace. Playing on the paranoia engendered by the Great War, he sows seeds of doubt among the good people of Wednesbury about the foreigner in their midst. Once Ann becomes an outcast, he will be able to claim her unwilling body for his evil purposes.

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848948990

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The Wanton Redhead by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

Meg Hutchinson's twentieth novel sweeps from the collieries of the Black Country to the sugar-scented islands of the Caribbean as it tells the story of a young woman who must suffer many violent wrongs before being saved by her own virtue, and by the love of a good man. When her selfish, flighty sister leaves home following a false promise of becoming the wife of a wealthy sugar plantation owner, Alyssa becomes solely responsible for her poor, deranged mother as well as for Thea's bastard son. Viciously raped, then thrown out of the family home, the girl goes on the run, fleeing her cruel rapist. Alyssa's journey is a perilous one. It will take her far from the Black Country to the wild shores of the Caribbean and put her in the path of evil men determined to despoil the young girl. For the palm-fringed island of Jamaica is home to a pernicious trade: white slavery . . .

Author : Meg Hutchinson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444718652

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Ties of Love by Meg Hutchinson Pdf

'Don't go, Amber, don't leave Denny an' me alone, I be feared of this house.' If only she had heeded her ten-year-old sister's words! But Amber Neale returns from India to the devastating news of Bethany's death and her brother's disappearance. The man she holds responsible is mine-owner Uriah Buckley, a powerful man in Darlaston, and Amber knows he will make her life a living hell if crossed. But loyalty to her siblings prevails, and she determines to seek out the truth. Amber's only ally is Rani, the gentle Indian girl who owes Amber her life. Together they create a line of floral face creams and cosmetics, and go on to found a successful beauty salon. But wealth and success do not fill the heart. Amber still aches with the loss of her beloved family, and demons from her life in India haunt her dreams. Meanwhile the vile Uriah Buckley waits in the wings, determined to despoil the innocent girl rather than see her uncover his vicious secret.