Amelia Dyer: Angel Maker tells the true story of a "kind", "homely" and "motherly" nurse who made a living by strangling unwanted babies to death. Born into a respectable working-class family, Amelia joined a nationwide network of women who pursued an "occupation which shuns the light". Amelia became adept at her trade, sidestepping the authorities for almost three decades and even initiating her own daughter into her nefarious profession." "Using hospital, prison and police archives, census records, contemporary newspaper reports and Dyer's own correspondence, authors Alison Rattle and Allison Vale reconstruct her life. Here, for the first time, is the full story of this ordinary woman who became a monster."--BOOK JACKET.
Don't put on the bangle without reading the manual! Marriage is for life, not just for Christmas (or Spring or Summer). It's an all-too-familiar scene: the big day went well (apart from that incident between the two mothers-in-law and the cake knife), you've got your partner home, taken them out of the box, unwrapped them, only to find that you've been sent the wrong model! This one nags, snores, never puts the seat down, always leaves the seat down, and never fails to act surprised when it's time to cough up at the supermarket checkout, prompting a frantic search for payment (like, did they think that this time it was going to be free?). And yet all of this stress can be avoided simply by careful planning and, no pun intended, good husbandry. Husbands: An Owner's Manual and Wives: An Owner's Manual will help snap you out of that misty eyed trance you'll have lapsed into before the big day and hit you with some real-life, hard-to-stomach, home truths about your spouse. Read up on essential information such as training, daily routines, foot care, mating and of course, the unmissable glossary of classic breeds. Being married is nothing like owning a dog. But like owning a dog, you have to be able to read the signs. You have to know the difference between a request for food and a request for a vigorous workout. And never mix them up.
Escape from a bullying mother takes one young woman to an even more dangerous place. Alice Angel has known only a life of rules, restriction and punishments as she strays from the rigid path of Victorian proprietary that her mother has set out for her. A constant disappointment to all but her doting father, she longs for the day that she might break free from the stifling atmosphere of her mother's rule. After a chance encounter with a charming stranger, and a final incident with her family that sees her condemned to the madhouse, Alice sees her opportunity to run and grasps it with both hands. She escapes to join the Agapemonites in their Abode of Love, where ex-Reverend Henry Prince rules his isolated colony of women as their Beloved. Prince ignites a passion in Alice that she never knew existed, and she dares to think she might be free at last. But as Alice becomes more deeply drawn into the life of Prince's strange religious sect, secrets are revealed that seem to hint at a darker nature lurking behind the man's charm. Instead of freedom, is Alice in fact more trapped, alone and in danger than ever before?
A gripping, moving and haunting Victorian drama from a debut author When fifteen-year-old Queenie escapes from the squalid slums of nineteenth-century London, she has no idea about the dangers of the dark world she is about to become embroiled in. Initially thrilled at being taken on as a maid for the seemingly respectable Waters sisters, Queenie comes to realise that something is very wrong with the dozens of strangely silent babies being 'adopted' into the household. Meanwhile, lonely and unloved sixteen-year-old Ellen is delighted when her handsome and charming young cousin Jacob is sent to live with her family. She thinks she has finally found a man to fall in love with and rely on, but when Jacob cruelly betrays her she finds herself once again at the mercy of her cold-hearted father. Soon the girls' lives become irrevocably entwined in this tension-filled drama. THE QUIETNESS is a novel of friendship and trust in the darkest of settings.
The chilling title of this hair-raising volume refers to the real-life Hell House of New Orleans--a mansion haunted by the ghosts of tortured and murdered slaves. But that’s only one of the 43 forbidding locations documented within these pages. Bold readers are invited to go on a world-spanning tour of haunted places, to meet ghosts, apparitions, and spirits such as the Windigo of the remote Canadian forests, which possesses unwary travelers and compels them to eat human flesh. Here also are such horrors as the moving coffins of Barbados, the Hungry Ghosts of China, and other bizarre manifestations of the spirit world. Truly a feast of shudders and thrills for all fans of the supernatural.
A thrilling Victorian tale of dangerous obsession and betrayal Sixteen-year-old Marnie lives in the idyllic coastal village of Clevedon. Despite being crippled by a childhood exposure to polio, she seems set to follow in her mother's footsteps, and become a 'dipper', escorting fragile female bathers into the sea. Her life is simple and safe. But then she meets Noah. Charming, handsome, son-of-the-local-Lord, Noah. She quickly develops a passion for him - a passion which consumes her. As Marnie's infatuation turns to fixation she starts to lose her grip on reality, and a harrowing and dangerous obsession develops that seems certain to end in tragedy. Set in the early Victorian era when propriety, modesty and repression were the rule, this is a taut psychological drama in which the breakdown of a young woman's emotional state will have a devastating impact on all those around her.
Battersea, 1961. London is just beginning to enter the swinging sixties. The world is changing - but not for sixteen-year-old Violet. She was born at the exact moment Winston Churchill announced Victory in Europe - an auspicious start, but now she's just stuck in her family's fish and chip shop dreaming of greatness. And it doesn't look like fame and fortune are going to come calling anytime soon. Then she meets Beau. Beau's a rocker - a motorcycle boy who arrives in an explosion of passion and rebellion. He blows up Violet's grey little life, and she can't believe her luck. But things don't go her way for long. Joseph, her long-lost brother, comes home. Then young girls start going missing, and turning up murdered. And then Violet's best friend disappears too. Suddenly life is horrifyingly much more interesting. Violet can't believe its coincidence that Joseph turns up just as girls start getting murdered. He's weird, and she feels sure he's hiding something. He's got a secret, and Violet's got a dreadful feeling it might be the worst kind of secret of all . . .
A frank and fascinating history of forty of Europe’s most loony, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs. In Mad Kings & Queens co-authors Alison Rattle and Allison Vale reveal a legion of kings and queens who have abused the pedestal of power in spectacular style. The respectability of the royal position is well and truly tossed aside by the whimsy and wanton depravity of these mad European monarchs, including: The queen who murdered her husband with a red-hot spit. The bloodthirsty monarch who impaled tens of thousands of his subjects. The vampiric ruler who bathed in the blood of young women. The king of excess who beheaded his wives. Mad Kings and Queens explores seven hundred years of royal eccentricity, detailing a catalogue of madness and exploring the finer intricacies of royal breeding that lay at its root.
Concise and informative, yet entertaining and engagingly written, Remember the Alamo? contains everything you will ever need to know about the United States.
See this lady? You would NOT want to lock horns with her. You certainly wouldn't give her your baby. But in the late nineteenth century, that's exactly what a lot of women did. Why? Because in an era when having a child out of wedlock was so severely frowned upon, Amelia Dyer took advantage of this. She advertised in the press offering to ''adop...
TRUE CRIME. See this lady? You would not want to lock horns with her. You certainly wouldn't give her your baby. But in the late nineteenth century, that's exactly what a lot of women did. Why? Because in an era when having a child out of wedlock was so severely frowned upon, Amelia Dyer took advantage of this. She advertised in the press offering to 'adopt' unwanted babies, charged the poor grief-stricken mums GBP 10 for the privilege, took the wee babes off their hands - and then drowned them in the River Thames. As well as relating the story, the authors explore the circumstances that enabled such crimes to be committed. Unregulated 'adoption' was a widely acknowledged problem. The Child Protection Act did not yet exist.
Carlton's best-selling series of Wrinklies books continues with this, the second illustrated outing. First there was Wrinklies' Wit & Wisdom, then came the Wrinklies' Joke Book, and now Illustrated Wrinklies' Wit & Wisdom. Page after page of humorous quotations and funny photographs to match make this book the perfect gift for the 'oldies' in your life! 'Getting older is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. ' Keith Richards 'Who cares? Let's get it out there, while it lasts. At 70, I'll be throwing them over my shoulders.' Catherine Zeta Jones referring to her topless photos You could have the best sex of your life in your 60s and 70s¿ if you never had sex until you were 60 or 70. Nora Ephron
They chose to part out of love, but this reunion is fate! Abby, a nurse, loves Tom but has no choice other than to leave him. After the accidental death of her parents, she can’t bear to watch him willingly risk his life as part of his job. When she realizes she’s pregnant with his baby, she decides to raise it on her own. Six years later, the island where Abby lives is hit by a major earthquake. When she hears the voice of a rescue team member, she’s shocked, because she has never forgotten that commanding voice… It’s Tom! Though Abby is thrown off by him being back in her life, she is determined to keep her secret!
They chose to part out of love, but this reunion is fate! Abby, a nurse, loves Tom but has no choice other than to leave him. After the accidental death of her parents, she can’t bear to watch him willingly risk his life as part of his job. When she realizes she’s pregnant with his baby, she decides to raise it on her own. Six years later, the island where Abby lives is hit by a major earthquake. When she hears the voice of a rescue team member, she’s shocked, because she has never forgotten that commanding voice… It’s Tom! Though Abby is thrown off by him being back in her life, she is determined to keep her secret!
Mamma mia! Didn't think mums could make you laugh? Think again. Mothers' Wit is full of classic one-liners from a rich variety of red-hot mammas such as Victoria Wood, Joan Rivers, Roseanne and Marge Simpson. Covering all the joys of motherhood, these celebrated matriarchs deliver belly laughs and offer pearls of maternal wisdom on such topics as morning sickness and strrretch marks, playground politics and raising hormonal teenagers, frenzied mealtimes and dreary household chores. Complemented with sharp insights from family members, Mothers' Wit will give every mother the one thing she really needs (apart from an uninterrupted night's sleep): a good laugh.
Programmer Gina is sent to a ranch in the outback for work. The client is Parish, an unrefined man with a huge personality. Between the inconveniences of outback life and the self-centered things Parish says, Gina is almost driven crazy. But through all their disagreements, the two can’t take their eyes off each other. When Gina suddenly finds herself held snugly against his burly chest, kissed by him over and over again, her determination to resist him is put to the ultimate test!
They chose to part out of love, but this reunion is fate! Abby, a nurse, loves Tom but has no choice other than to leave him. After the accidental death of her parents, she can’t bear to watch him willingly risk his life as part of his job. When she realizes she’s pregnant with his baby, she decides to raise it on her own. Six years later, the island where Abby lives is hit by a major earthquake. When she hears the voice of a rescue team member, she’s shocked, because she has never forgotten that commanding voice… It’s Tom! Though Abby is thrown off by him being back in her life, she is determined to keep her secret!
NOISE...A rattle and bang, the wreckage of lives in zero-gee.The sounds of fear, of bravery, of love, and war.A sound, a clatter, a commotion...Do you hear that noise, so quiet, so deafening? Is it the cry of justice rendered? Are illusions really so loud?Noises in the dark, voices in the stillness, Twelve stories, novellas, and poems of sound and silence and the Human experience of Noise.
Descriptosaurus: Myths & Legends builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of myths and legends, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level, combine their descriptions of setting and character and show how the two interact. Children can then experiment with heroes, gods and supernatural beings to create a legendary story. This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to grammar textbooks and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar they will need to improve their writing, both creative and technical.
Now in a fully updated third edition, Descriptosaurus is the first book for creative writing that is a thematic expansion of a dictionary and a thesaurus; it provides children with a comprehensive resource with which to expand their descriptive vocabulary, experiment with language and sentence structure and build up narratives based around settings, characters and creatures. Descriptosaurus positions the word, zooms in on it to examine the meaning, expands it into phrases, and then provides alternatives in words, phrases and sentences; the model was created and refined over a number of years as a result of feedback from children inside and outside the classroom as to the resources they required to inspire and assist them with their writing. For reluctant writers or those faced with blank page syndrome, it provides essential starting points to encourage putting pen to paper, not only inspiring children, but also building their confidence, encouraging them to use, apply and create using the correct grammatical structures, and adding colour to their writing through evaluation and experimentation. New features for this updated third edition include: Sample poems Word banks and model sentences to provide a step-by-step process for development of vocabulary and understanding of phrase, clause and sentence structure Contextualised grammar and punctuation instruction and guidance Units of work where the models can be incorporated in a creative focus A companion website containing all the features of the book, games, planning sheets and vocabulary builders This is an ideal resource to dramatically improve children’s creative writing for all KS2 primary and KS3 secondary English teachers, literacy coordinators and parents. It would also make an excellent classroom book for PGCE students, particularly Primary PGCE with English specialism.
These 14 essays by scholars who have worked with David Jasper in both church and academy develop original discussions of themes emerging from his writings on literature, theology and hermeneutics. The arts, institutions, literature and liturgy are among the subject areas they cover.
When the Franklin Motor Expedition set out across the Canadian Prairies to collect First Nations artifacts, brutal assimilation policies threatened to decimate these cultures and extensive programs of ethnographic salvage were in place. Despite having only three members, the expedition amassed the largest single collection of Prairie heritage items currently housed in a British museum. Through the voices of descendants of the collectors and members of the affected First Nations, this book looks at the relationships between indigenous peoples and the museums that display their cultural artifacts, raising timely and essential questions about the role of collections in the twenty-first century.
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