The Most Dangerous Woman In Europe

Author : Terence Jenkins
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785893186

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The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Terence Jenkins Pdf

This is the sixth of Terence Jenkins' successful series of idiosyncratic books about London and its inhabitants. The retired teacher, journalist and ex-London guide, gives another entertaining and informative collection of bite-sized chunks, which are perfect for a leisurely stroll around the capital. You may discover a London you never knew and meet people who will widen your horizons. Who was the Queen whose funeral was attended by thousands? What was one of the greatest of American crime-writers doing in SE 19? And who was one of Hitler's greatest fears? Read. Explore. Enjoy.

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784743240

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Edda Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

Author : Brenda Clough
Publisher : Serial Box
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682105368

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A Most Dangerous Woman: A Novel by Brenda Clough Pdf

An exciting Victorian-era murder mystery, populated by characters from Wilkie Collins’s beloved The Woman in White. Marian Halcolmbe finds and marries her true love, Theo Camlet. But when Theo’s first wife, who everyone believed to be dead, reappears, Marian and her brother in law Walter must delve into the darkest and most dangerous corners of London to save Theo from accusations of bigamy and murder, as well as the hangman’s noose. Victorian literature's most exciting heroine, Marian Halcombe, stars in Brenda Clough’s thrilling and romantic sequel to Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White. Praise for A Most Dangerous Woman: "Blending seamlessly with the end of Wilkie Collins's beloved The Woman in White, Brenda Clough's A Most Dangerous Woman takes one of the most fascinating female characters in Victorian literature and gives her the life she deserves." —Sherwood Smith, author of the Sartorias-deles series

Author : Kitty Kelley
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780446568548

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The Royals by Kitty Kelley Pdf

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 : Theresa Moritz,Theresa Anne Moritz,Albert Frank Moritz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Anarchists
ISBN : UOM:39015049738001

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The World's Most Dangerous Woman by Theresa Moritz,Theresa Anne Moritz,Albert Frank Moritz Pdf

Biography of the feminist and social anarchist Emma Goldman, with new insights into her time spent in Toronto. Goldman was notorious as "Red Emma" and "the most dangerous woman in America" because of her advanced anti-authoritarian views. Here the authors search through previously ignored private papers in Europe and the United States, as well as other indigenous resources, to provided a fresh interpretation of Goldman's influential and troubled life.

Author : Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770701182

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1900-2002 by Arthur Bousfield,Garry Toffoli Pdf

Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 1900 - 2002 presents the life of a remarkable woman. A Canadian perspective on a sovereign who created and cultivated a special relationship with Canada, it is the portrait of a queen who always evoked passionate reactions. Whether it was the anonymous soldier who vowed "to fight for that little lady," Adolf Hitler who described her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe," or the Canadian journalist who coined the expression "the Queen Mum," the Queen Mother seldom left people unmoved. Opening with the royal tour of 1939, during which Canadians first felt her personal magnetism, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 1900 - 2002 describes Elizabeth’s background and development, relating how she made a marriage that brought her to the centre stage of public life. It traces her tender support of her shy husband, a reluctant king, shows how she began her Commonwealth role, and recalls her shock at the sudden and unexpected call to wear the Crown. Faced with the never-ending duties of a queen, Elizabeth proved capable of providing inspired leadership for a society faced with the stark prospect of destruction in a war to save the world. On the premature death of her beloved husband she became Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, a role that has shaped nearly half her life, and one in which Canada has always played an important part. The authors analyze Her Majesty’s successes and failures, both public and private, against the background of a century of violent disruption, material achievement, and incredible change.

Author : Anne Wiltsher
Publisher : London ; Boston : Pandora Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081642337

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Most Dangerous Women by Anne Wiltsher Pdf

"This volume describes the activities of women's peace groups during World War I and depicts the efforts of women to encourage a negotiated end to the conflict. The author's aim is to assess how the women's suffrage movement responded to the First World War, concentrating on those feminists who worked for peace. The book gives a comprehensive view of a crucial era in women's history and illuminates the feminist pacifist scene of the 1920s in England, Germany, the United States, Russia, and many other countries." -- from GWonline

Author : Deborah McDonald,Jeremy Dronfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780747095

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A Very Dangerous Woman by Deborah McDonald,Jeremy Dronfield Pdf

Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century’s greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed everything for love, only to be betrayed. When Lockhart arrived in Revolutionary Russia in 1918, his official mission was Britain’s envoy to the new Bolshevik government, yet his real assignment was to create a network of agents and plot the downfall of Lenin. Lockhart soon got to know Moura and they began a passionate affair, even though Moura was spying on him for the Bolsheviks. But when Lockhart’s plot unravelled, she would forsake everything in an attempt to protect him from Lenin’s secret police. Fleeing to a life of exile in England and taking a string of new lovers, including Maxim Gorky and H. G. Wells, Moura later spied for Stalin and for Britain amidst the web of scandal surrounding the Cambridge spies. Through all this she clung to the hope that Lockhart would finally return to her. Grippingly narrated, this is the first biography of Moura Budberg to use the full range of previously unexamined letters, diaries and documents. An incredible true story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe, A Very Dangerous Woman brings her extraordinary world vividly to life with dramatic resonances to rival the most sensational novel.

Author : Wendy Holden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593101346

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The Royal Governess by Wendy Holden Pdf

“This captivating page-turner whisks readers back in time to Buckingham Palace in 1933…A majestic story that delves into the incredible life of Queen Elizabeth II before she took her place on the throne.”—Woman’s World Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown childhood years of one of the world’s most famous figures, Queen Elizabeth II, and reveals the spirited young governess who made her the icon we love today. In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents the Duke and Duchess of York is that she bring some doses of normalcy into their sheltered and privileged lives. At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral, Marion defies stuffy protocol to take the princesses on tube trains, swimming at public baths, and on joyful Christmas shopping trips at Woolworth’s. From her ringside seat at the heart of the British monarchy she witnesses twentieth-century history’s most seismic events. The trauma of the Abdication, the glamour of the Coronation, the onset of World War II. She steers the little girls through it all, as close as a mother. During Britain’s darkest hour, as Hitler’s planes fly over Windsor, she shelters her charges in the castle dungeons (not far from where the Crown Jewels are hidden in a biscuit tin). Afterwards, she is present when Elizabeth first sets eyes on Philip. But being beloved confidante to the Windsors comes at huge personal cost. Marriage, children, her own views: all are compromised by proximity to royal glory. In this majestic story of love, sacrifice and allegiance, bestselling novelist Holden shines a captivating light into the years before Queen Elizabeth II took the throne.

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735279759

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Mussolini's Daughter by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The bestselling author of A Train in Winter returns with the definitive story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy, whose life had more twists and turns than a spy novel. Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. For much of the twenty-year period of Fascist rule, she was her father's closest confidante. In 1930, at the age of nineteen, Edda married Count Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest Foreign Secretary in Italian history. Acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, Edda played a part in steering Italy to join forces with Hitler. During this time, the Cianos became the most celebrated and glamorous couple in elegant, vulgar Roman fascist society. Their fortunes turned in 1943, when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a plot to bring him down, and his father-in-law did not forgive him. Edda's dramatic story includes hidden diaries, her father's downfall and her husband's execution, and an escape into Switzerland followed by a period in exile. Moorehead draws a portrait of a complicated, bold, and determined woman—one who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth century's defining moments. And we see Fascist Italy with all its glamour, decadence and political intrigue, and the turbulence before its violent end.

Author : Susan Ronald
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250092229

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A Dangerous Woman by Susan Ronald Pdf

A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940’s Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability and happiness, she became the third wife of Frank Jay Gould, son of the railway millionaire Jay Gould. She guided Frank’s millions into hotels and casinos, creating a luxury hotel and casino empire. She entertained Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Kennedy, and many Hollywood stars—like Charlie Chaplin, who became her lover. While the party ended for most Americans after the Crash of 1929, Frank and Florence stayed on, fearing retribution by the IRS. During the Occupation, Florence took several German lovers and hosted a controversial Nazi salon. As the Allies closed in, the unscrupulous Florence became embroiled in a notorious money laundering operation for Hermann Göring’s Aerobank. Yet after the war, not only did she avoid prosecution, but her vast fortune bought her respectability as a significant contributor to the Metropolitan Museum and New York University, among many others. It also earned her friends like Estée Lauder who obligingly looked the other way. A seductive and utterly amoral woman who loved to say “money doesn’t care who owns it,” Florence’s life proved a strong argument that perhaps money can buy happiness after all.

Author : Linda Elmore Teeple
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781430301837

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The Nature of Grace; Ponderings on God's Abundant Grace by Linda Elmore Teeple Pdf

Phillip Yancey says that "every writer has one main theme, a spoor that he or she keeps sniffing around, tracking, following it to its source." My spoor is "grace," states Linda Teeple, author of The Nature of Grace: Ponderings On God's Abundant Grace. "I write about Grace because I want everyone to 'get' grace. There's a life-changing difference between understanding grace at the head level and experiencing grace at the heart level. God continually reminds me of his grace through nature--the nature of the great outdoors, the nature of the human heart, and the nature of relationships." Linda is a marriage and family therapist by vocation and a naturalist by avocation. She resides in Anderson, Indiana with her husband and her canine companions, Panda and Leader Dog puppy, Faith. Linda writes a weekly newspaper column entitled, "The Nature of Grace," which can be viewed at http: //www.heraldbulletin.com.

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735279742

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Mussolini's Daughter by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

The bestselling author of A Train in Winter returns with the definitive story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy, whose life had more twists and turns than a spy novel. Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. For much of the twenty-year period of Fascist rule, she was her father's closest confidante. In 1930, at the age of nineteen, Edda married Count Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest Foreign Secretary in Italian history. Acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, Edda played a part in steering Italy to join forces with Hitler. During this time, the Cianos became the most celebrated and glamorous couple in elegant, vulgar Roman fascist society. Their fortunes turned in 1943, when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a plot to bring him down, and his father-in-law did not forgive him. Edda's dramatic story includes hidden diaries, her father's downfall and her husband's execution, and an escape into Switzerland followed by a period in exile. Moorehead draws a portrait of a complicated, bold, and determined woman—one who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth century's defining moments. And we see Fascist Italy with all its glamour, decadence and political intrigue, and the turbulence before its violent end.

Author : Gareth Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781668006931

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Do Let's Have Another Drink! by Gareth Russell Pdf

For fans of The Crown and Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, a deliciously entertaining collection of 101 fascinating and funny anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother—one for each year of her life. During her lifetime, the Queen Mother was as famous for her clever quips, pointed observations, and dry-as-a-martini delivery style as she was for being a beloved royal. Now, Do Let’s Have Another Drink recounts 101 (one for each year of her remarkable life) amusing and astonishing vignettes from across her long life, including her coming of age during World War I, the abdication of her brother-in-law and her unexpected ascendance to the throne, and her half century of widowhood as her daughter reigned over the United Kingdom. Featuring new revelations and colorful anecdotes about the woman Cecil Beaton, the high society photographer, once summarized as “a marshmallow made on a welding machine,” Do Let’s Have Another Drink is a delightful celebration of one of the most consistently popular members of the royal family.

Author : Marlene Wagman-Geller
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781642509441

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Secret Lives of Royal Women by Marlene Wagman-Geller Pdf

Fascinating Portraits of the Secret Lives of Royals “...offers deep insight into those who were power players in the world’s past. I’m even adding some of them to my personal list of sheroes and anti-sheroes…!” —Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome Women Enjoy this engaging collection of biographical vignettes highlighting the secret lives of royal women like Queen Noor, Queen Anne Boleyn, Princess Grace Kelly, and many other phenomenal women. Royal family secrets revealed! Have you ever wondered what royals go through? Have you ever thought about what the intimate lives of phenomenal women look like? The Secret Lives of Royal Women features the intimate and historically accurate details of some of history’s most privileged women. Learn from the life stories of Meghan Duchess of Sussex, Princess Diana, Maharani Gayatri Devi, Queen Narriman and many others. Fall in love with these phenomenal women! Dive into the fascinating history of Hawaii’s only ever Queen, Liliuokalani; learn the story of Lady Jane Grey who was dethroned by Mary Queen of Scots; and learn more about Queen Elizabeth who Adolf Hitler called “the most dangerous woman in Europe.” Every single one of these women will enrapture you and leave you wanting to find out more. Inside, you’ll find: • The inside scoop to the secret lives of phenomenal women • Potentially life-changing lessons from these royal vignettes • A book on royals packed with new and empowering historical stories If you enjoy reading historical British biographies such as The Palace Papers or historical nonfiction and motivational books for women like Vanderbilt, Women of Means, or Recipes for a Sacred Life, you’ll love The Secret Lives of Royal Women.