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Among Ruins

By: Harriet Vyner

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Among Ruins

By: Harriet Vyner

Laura is born to a wealthy family, and lives on a vast Northumberland estate - until her father gambles away the family fortune and a move to London prefigures drastic change.

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240

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0571225934

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9780571225934

Groovy Bob

The Life and Times of Robert Fraser

By: Harriet Vyner

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Groovy Bob

The Life and Times of Robert Fraser

By: Harriet Vyner

Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner's Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser astonished London with the artists he introduced: Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Claes Oldenburg, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Told through the voices of those who knew him best--Paul McCartney, Richard Hamilton, Mick Jagger, Bridget Riley, Keith Richards, Kenneth Anger, Malcolm McLaren and Vyner herself--Groovy Bob is a brilliant biography and a searing portrait of the most exhilarating period in post-war British social history. This edition features a new afterword by the author and colour plates including works from the major exhibition A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser, curated by Vyner and Brian Clarke at Pace London, 2015.

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384

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Heni Publishers

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0993010393

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9780993010392

Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts

By: Harriet Vyner,Jools Holland

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Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts

By: Harriet Vyner,Jools Holland

Jools Holland has had a fascinating life. From playing on bomb sites as a boy in the East End, to skiving off school and then selling millions of records with Squeeze, the first twenty years of his life were eventful, chaotic and colourful. Then came The Tube with Paula Yates, the seminal live music programme that propelled him to fame. Over the following three decades, Jools succeeded in placing himself at the epicentre of a global community comprising just about anybody who is anybody in music. Through Later with Jools Holland, the longest-running music programme on television, he has given British TV debuts to countless now world famous bands. Packed with hilarious anecdotes written in Holland’s own inimitable style and laced with quirky insights and deliciously acute detail, this autobiography by one of Britain’s most gifted and debonaire musicians is not just for music fans, but for anyone who is looking for something several cuts above the conventional showbiz memoir.

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400

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Penguin UK

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0141904747

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9780141904740

The Animal Estate

The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England

By: Harriet Ritvo

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The Animal Estate

The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England

By: Harriet Ritvo

When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with his wild kill, the gentleman farmer with a prize bull. Harriet Ritvo here gives us a vivid picture of how animals figured in English thinking during the nineteenth century and, by extension, how they served as metaphors for human psychological needs and sociopolitical aspirations. Victorian England was a period of burgeoning scientific cattle breeding and newly fashionable dog shows; an age of Empire and big game hunting; an era of reform and reformers that saw the birth of the Royal SPCA. Ritvo examines Victorian thinking about animals in the context of other lines of thought: evolution, class structure, popular science and natural history, imperial domination. The papers and publications of people and organizations concerned with agricultural breeding, veterinary medicine, the world of pets, vivisection and other humane causes, zoos, hunting at home and abroad, all reveal underlying assumptions and deeply held convictions—for example, about Britain’s imperial enterprise, social discipline, and the hierarchy of orders, in nature and in human society. Thus this book contributes a new new topic of inquiry to Victorian studies; its combination of rhetorical analysis with more conventional methods of historical research offers a novel perspective on Victorian culture. And because nineteenth-century attitudes and practices were often the ancestors of contemporary ones, this perspective can also inform modern debates about human–animal interactions.

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366

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Harvard University Press

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0674266730

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9780674266735

A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense

A Portrait of Robert Fraser

By: Brian Clarke,Harriet Vyner

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A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense

A Portrait of Robert Fraser

By: Brian Clarke,Harriet Vyner

Pace London is honoured to present A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense, a momentous exhibition that will take as inspiration the character and career of celebrated art dealer and pioneer, Robert Fraser. Curated by his friend Brian Clarke, this exhibition will showcase many of the luminaries of the American and European contemporary art scenes that passed through his gallery. The Robert Fraser Gallery was one of the preeminent galleries showing both emerging European and American artists in the 1960's and 80's in London. -- Pace London.

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263

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1909406163

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9781909406162

Going to Boston

Harriet Robinson's Journey to New Womanhood

By: Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson

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Going to Boston

Harriet Robinson's Journey to New Womanhood

By: Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson

An exploration of Harriet Robinson's journal entries from the crucial year of 1870"--Provided by publisher.

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280

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Brandeis University Press

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1512600903

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9781512600902

The Minister's Wooing

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The Minister's Wooing

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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