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Author : Wendy Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 156980057X
The housekeeper of Prince Charles and Diana for seven years chronicles the slow disintegration of their fairy tale marriage, which included illicit visitors, Diana's bulimia, and Charles's nocturnal excursions and obsession with his house.
Author : Tessa Boase
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781312681
Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want – and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and gruelling physical labour. Until now, her story has never been told. The Housekeeper’s Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women’s careers. Delving into secret diaries, unpublished letters and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain’s most prominent households. There is Dorothy Doar, Regency housekeeper for the obscenely wealthy 1st Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. There is Sarah Wells, a deaf and elderly Victorian in charge of Uppark, West Sussex. Ellen Penketh is Edwardian cook-housekeeper at the sociable but impecunious Erddig Hall in the Welsh borders. Hannah Mackenzie runs Wrest Park in Bedfordshire – Britain’s first country-house war hospital, bankrolled by playwright J. M. Barrie. And there is Grace Higgens, cook-housekeeper to the Bloomsbury set at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex for half a century – an era defined by the Second World War. Revelatory, gripping and unexpectedly poignant, The Housekeeper’s Tale champions the invisible women who ran the English country house. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONE
Author : Wendy Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Princes
ISBN : 0646246968
Author : Natalie Barelli
Publisher : Furphies Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648225980
She's a liar. She's a stalker. She's in your house. When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been ten years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has thought of her every day, and not in a good way. So Claire does what anyone would do in her position—she stalks her. Hannah is now Mrs. Carter, living the charmed life that should have been Claire's. It's the life Claire used to have, before Hannah came along and took it all away from her. Back then, Claire was a happy teenager with porcelain skin and long, wavy blond hair. Now she's an overweight, lazy drunk with hair the color of compost and skin to match. Which is why when Hannah advertises for a housekeeper, Claire is confident she can apply and not be recognized. And since she has time on her hands, revenge on her mind, and a talent for acting… Because what better way to seek retribution—and redress—than from within the beautiful Mrs. Hannah Carter's own home? Except that it's not just Claire who has secrets. Everyone in that house seems to have something to hide. And now, there's no way out.
Author : Linda Villarosa
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525566229
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."—Oprah Daily From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation. In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore. Now, in Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American health-care system and in American society that cause Black people to “live sicker and die quicker” compared to their white counterparts. Today's medical texts and instruments still carry fallacious slavery-era assumptions that Black bodies are fundamentally different from white bodies. Study after study of medical settings show worse treatment and outcomes for Black patients. Black people live in dirtier, more polluted communities due to environmental racism and neglect from all levels of government. And, most powerfully, Villarosa describes the new understanding that coping with the daily scourge of racism ages Black people prematurely. Anchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, Under the Skin is dramatic, tragic, and necessary reading.
Author : Patrick Jephson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008260125
Reissued for the twentieth anniversary of Diana’s death, this sensational and controversial bestseller is an explosive account of her life, from the man who was by her side throughout its most turbulent period.
Author : Elizabeth Berg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588364562
In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal. Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love. Elizabeth Berg's The Year of Pleasuresis about acknowledging the solace found in ordinary things: a warm bath, good food, the beauty of nature, music, friends, and art. "Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems," said Andre Dubus about Durable Goods. And the same could be said about The Year of Pleasures.
Author : Yoko Ogawa
Publisher : Picador
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312427808
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper--with a ten-year-old son--who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities--like the Housekeeper's shoe size--and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away. Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.
Author : Kitty Kelley
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780446568548
The #1 New York Times bestselling, controversial portrait of the British royal family -- as told from behind the palace walls -- for fans of Netflix's The Crown and all royal watchers They are the most chronicled family on the face of the globe. Their every move attracts headlines. Now Kitty Kelley has gone behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Kensington Palace to raise the curtain on the men and women who make up the British royal family. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Princess Diana...here are the scandals of the last decades: the doomed marriages and the husbands, wives, lovers and children caught in their wake and damaged beyond repair. No one is spared.
Author : William Kitchiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Cooking, English
ISBN : UCSD:31822042773788
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802743688
"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman--bodily and morally the husband's slave--a very doubtful happiness." -Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vicky Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson at age 31 in 1844. Her first husband had died suddenly, leaving his estate to a son from a previous marriage, so she inherited nothing. A successful civil engineer, Henry moved them, by then with two sons, to Edinburgh's elegant society in 1850. But Henry traveled often and was cold and remote when home, leaving Isabella to her fantasies. No doubt thousands of Victorian women faced the same circumstances, but Isabella chose to record her innermost thoughts-and especially her infatuation with a married Dr. Edward Lane-in her diary. Over five years the entries mounted-passionate, sensual, suggestive. One fateful day in 1858 Henry chanced on the diary and, broaching its privacy, read Isabella's intimate entries. Aghast at his wife's perceived infidelity, Henry petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery. Until that year, divorce had been illegal in England, the marital bond being a cornerstone of English life. Their trial would be a cause celebre, threatening the foundations of Victorian society with the specter of "a new and disturbing figure: a middle class wife who was restless, unhappy, avid for arousal." Her diary, read in court, was as explosive as Flaubert's Madame Bovary, just published in France but considered too scandalous to be translated into English until the 1880s. As she accomplished in her award-winning and bestselling The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale brilliantly recreates the Victorian world, chronicling in exquisite and compelling detail the life of Isabella Robinson, wherein the longings of a frustrated wife collided with a society clinging to rigid ideas about sanity, the boundaries of privacy, the institution of marriage, and female sexuality.
Author : Lisa Alvarado,Ann Hagman Cardinal,Jane Alberdeston Coralin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451217705
Three Latina friends--Taina, dreading her quinceañera while hiding her secret Jamaican artist boyfriend from her family; Grachi, torn between duty and her dreams; and Leni, a rebel struggling to make sense of her roots and her growing feelings for a childhood friend--find their friendship with one another sustaining them as they search for their place in life. Original. 50,000 first printing.
Author : Jill L. Reiter,Wendy W. Berry
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 9780741434814
Humanity, politics, religion, trauma. Is this child, accused of murder, really the one plagued with obsession and control? Susan and Adrianna will discover the truth and motivation behind this murder.
Author : Jennifer Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0228843170
Is the grass really greener on the other side? Does money make life easier? We are all led to believe that success and happiness is measured by the size of your bank balance. 'A Billionaire's Housekeeper' shows a true, often hilarious, account of what it's like working for some of Australia's most elite. Follow me on a journey of light hearted fun, and how an ordinary mum ends up in a world that is the total opposite of her own. Extract, 'Unfortunately, there was no idea of personal space, so when she spoke to you it was often in close range and involved an occasional smack or pinch, even a hard bite. In one drunken stupor she proceeded to ride me like a cowboy, screaming, "We gotta get out of this place!"'
Author : Susan Cheever
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743264624
A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.