Christie Farrell is the eldest daughter of a plantation owner in Charleston, South Carolina. She leads a sheltered existence until her father decides that she should marry. The story depicts Christie's development from privileged daughter, via physical and mental scars and challenges, to a generous and complete woman. Jean Morley writes with humour and compassion and the atmosphere of eighteenth-century plantation living in Charleston and village customs in England are vividly brought to life.
It is 1758 and Melanie Shaw, an elegant young widow, travels to London for the season accompanied by her protégée Joanna Brooke. They enjoy the social whirl until Melanie meets Joanna's enigmatic brother, Matthew. Through him she is drawn into a web of espionage, betrayal and intrigue. Who can she trust and is Matthew all he seems? Has she made a really big mistake?
Following personal tragedy, Charlotte Hayes finds herself living in poverty and in charge of two motherless boys and a waif from the streets. She works in a nearby bookshop and just about manages to survive. When an autocratic doctor and her employer's engaging son arrive in Lincoln, she is drawn into two very different worlds and she struggles to retain her family and stability. But then she is accused of blackmail and murder and her dark secret is discovered. Can she rise above her torments and achieve the happiness she desires?
Kate Elliss tries to be fair to everyone but no one seems to return the favour. When she is left in penury after her father's death, she seeks employment to support herself and her two faithful, elderly servants. Unused to servitude, and with an attitude somewhat inappropriate to her position, she realises that she has found her house of dreams - unfortunately it belongs to her employer (who is mystified by her polished and sophisticated gifts). Then her vengeful brother Daniel turns up and her situation becomes even more precarious. 'Jean Morley is a spellbinding storyteller. I could not put this novel down until the last page!' - Charles Muller, Diadem Books.
This eighteenth-century romance and adventure story will enchant and enthrall the reader! Eluned Owen is disappointed with events that take place at home in Wales and decides to visit her aunt, Megan Oare, in Devon. Megan is pleased to see her, but why is she frightened of the men who live in the dilapidated barn? Eluned becomes involved with Richard and Dudley, the two men she met whilst crossing the Bristol Channel. But can she trust them? She's invited to meet Alice, Richard's daughter, at Holland House. She finds it a different world to the one in Wales. But why does Richard have to leave so abruptly? And who is responsible for the burglaries from the large house? Why is Eluned locked in her room? After escaping out of her bedroom window, hurrying to rescue Megan and being left to drown, Eluned's problems are finally resolved.
As a younger son, Jack Langford did not expect to become Squire of Cherrydene. Reluctant to leave his crime-solving work in London, he gradually becomes more involved with the residents of Cherrydene and tries to make up for the neglect of his ancestors. But what does he really want? And will Lucy change his mind?
Bright and bubbly eighteen-year-old Lavinia Meadows comes to London with her family to find a husband, following in the footsteps of her elder sister. She thoroughly enjoys herself in the London social whirl but her path is crossed by Sir Nicholas Sinclair, the one person her mother wishes her to avoid as he has the reputation of being the most handsome rake in town. Lavinia's enquiring mind leads her into unexpected situations, surprising Sir Nicholas and making him reconsider his own life. But will he rescue her from the most traumatic adventure of all? Jean Morley was born in Lincoln but has spent most of her life in Wiltshire. Here she taught City and Guilds Sugarcraft for many years. Now retired, she indulges in watercolour painting and writing. Her eclectic range of short stories have been entered in competitions, read to groups and broadcast on radio. Ballroom Belles is her eighth novel.
Two sisters change the course of a nation by forsaking the King—their own father. England is on the verge of revolution. Antagonized by the Catholicism of King James II, the people plot to drive him from the throne. But at the heart of the plot is a deep betrayal: the defection of the daughters James loves, Mary and Anne. Both raised Protestant according to the wishes of England, the sisters support Protestant usurper William of Orange, Mary's husband, who lusts after the British crown. Passive Queen Mary is subservient to her husband's wishes, while Anne is desperate to please her childhood friend Sarah Churchill, a bold and domineering woman determined to subdue Anne, the queen-to-be, and rule England herself. Intrigue and political drama run high as the sisters struggle to be reconciled with each other--and with the haunting memory of the father they have exiled.
Creativity and the Poetic Mind mingles the voices of well-known writers such as Nikki Giovanni, Donald Hall, John Koethe, Marge Piercy, and Robert Pinsky with newer voices, and includes engaging excerpts from interviews with thirty-eight American poets. Within a sustained argument about creative states of mind, this book innovatively presents and explores the technique of «going to the place» as more reliable in writing poetry than waiting for «inspiration». It explains why poets frequently believe that talking about their own poetry may damage their creativity and why, for centuries, inspiration has seemed to come from somewhere beyond the poet. In addition, it discusses the practicality of poets' thinking that «being creative» and «writing poetry» are two separate skills: inspiration is unreliable, but experienced poets create daily.
The author, a well-known astronomer himself, describes the evolution of astronomical ideas, touching only lightly on most of the instrumental developments. Richly illustrated, the book starts with the astronomical ideas of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian philosophers, moves on to the Greek period and then on to the golden age of astronomy, that of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Finally, Pecker concludes with modern theories of cosmology. Written with astronomy undergraduates in mind, this is a fascinating survey of astronomical thinking.
Isaac Rosenberg was among the greatest poets of the First World War. The British-born son of impoversihed Russian Jews, Rosenberg fought as a private in the trenches of the Great Was and died on the Western Front in 1918 as the age of 27. In Isaac Rosenberg, Wilson examines the influence of Rosenberg's class and heritage on his writings, as well as the development of his poetic technique. She traces his maturation from his childhood in Bristol and the Jewish East End of London to art school, his travels to South Africa, and finally his harrowing service as a private in the British Army. Rosenberg was also a gifted painter and this beautifully illustrated volume oncludes some hitherto inseen self-portraits, along with photogrpahs of Rosenberg and his family. Wilson's biogrpahy brings together all known Rosenberg material with a mass of important new discoveries. Isaac Rosenberg is a long-overdue consideration of a remarkable war poet.
A private battle rages at court for the affections of a childless queen, who must soon name her successor—and thus determine the future of the British Empire. It is the beginning of the eighteenth century and William of Orange is dying. Soon Anne is crowned queen, but to court insiders, the name of the imminent sovereign is Sarah Churchill. Beautiful, outspoken Sarah has bewitched Anne and believes she is invincible—until she installs her poor cousin Abigail Hill into court as royal chambermaid. Plain Abigail seems the least likely challenger to Sarah’s place in her highness’s affections, but challenge it she does, in stealthy yet formidable ways. While Anne engages in her private tug-of-war, the nation is obsessed with another, more public battle: succession. Anne is sickly and childless, the last of the Stuart line. This final novel of the Stuarts from Jean Plaidy weaves larger-than-life characters through a dark maze of intrigue, love, and destruction, with nothing less than the future of the British Empire at stake.
Black holes are undoubtedly one of the most fascinating discoveries of modern astronomy, and their description one of the most daring intellectual feats of modern times. They have already become legendary, forming the basis of many myths, fantasies and science fiction movies. Are they really the monsters which devour light and stars; bottomless celestial pits into which all matter is sucked and crushed? Are they an observable reality, or are they just hypothetical objects from the theory of relativity? In answering such questions the author takes us on a fabulous journey through space and time. Dr Jean-Pierre Luminet is an astronomer at Meudon Observatory in France, a specialist on the subject of black holes, and has also acquired a reputation for being a gifted writer and communicator. In this book he makes the subject of black holes accessible to any interested reader, who will need no mathematical background.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712–1778) political philosophy heavily influenced the French Revolution, as well as the American Revolution and the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought in particular through his book “The social contract”, published in 1762. This monumental work is part of the family of older, major writings on social contract theory by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704).Rousseau compares the social contract to an "act of association" whereby there is reciprocal commitment between the state and the individual. The individuals as citizens share sovereign power, but as subjects put themselves under the laws of the state. Rousseau also defines government as one of the principal actors: it is an intermediary body between the subjects and the state with the main tasks of executing the laws and preserving civil and political freedom.Rousseau's social contract was an idea in advance of its time and continues to attract the interest of social scientists, and new interpretations of the social contract are being developed, such as in game theory. For all Rousseau's fame, it is ironic that “The social contract” was banned at the time of its publication, both in Geneva and France (admittedly for religious reasons) and that Rousseau had to flee to avoid arrest.
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