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Aristocrats

Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832

By: Stella Tillyard

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Aristocrats

Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832

By: Stella Tillyard

A fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period 1740-1832. Passionate, witty and moving, the voices of the Lennox sisters reach us with immediacy and power, drawing the reader into their remarkable lives, and making this one of the most enthralling historical naratives to appear for many years.

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Random House

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1446498123

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9781446498125

Call Upon the Water

A Novel

By: Stella Tillyard

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Call Upon the Water

A Novel

By: Stella Tillyard

Spanning several decades in seventeenth century Great Britain and America, this “impressive piece of work, rich in historical detail and human insight” (The Sunday Times) is an unforgettable love story exploring the power of nature versus man and man versus woman. I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I prefer to weigh everything in the balance, to calculate and to plan. Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count. In 1649, Jan Brunt arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of marshy wetlands known as the Great Level. It is here in this wild country that he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her strive beyond her situation, Jan is heedless of her devotion to her home and way of life. When she uses the education Jan has given her to sabotage his work, Eliza is brutally punished, and Jan flees to the New World. In the American colonies, profiteers on Manatus Eyland are hungry for viable land to develop, and Jan’s skills as an engineer are highly prized. His prosperous new life is rattled, however, on a spring morning when a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the Great Level, and confront all that was lost there. Eliza has made it to the New World and is once again using the education Jan gave her to bend the landscape—this time to find her own place of freedom. A “story of passion, possession, and a painful education in love” (Sarah Dunant, author of In the Name of the Family), Call Upon the Water is an adventure, an unusual and intelligent love story, and a powerful comment on the relationship between humans and the environment. “Richly involving…rousing and heroic” (The Guardian), this unforgettable historical novel is perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel, Geraldine Brooks, and Philippa Gregory. *Note: This book was published in the UK under the title The Great Level.

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Atria Books

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1982120967

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9781982120962

Tides of War

A Novel

By: Stella Tillyard

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Tides of War

A Novel

By: Stella Tillyard

A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 An epic novel about love and war, set in Regency England and Spain during the Peninsular War (1812-15), by the acclaimed historian and bestselling author of Aristocrats Tides of War opens in England with the recently married, charmingly unconventional Harriet preparing to say goodbye to her husband, James, as he leaves to join the Duke of Wellington's troops in Spain. Harriet and James's interwoven stories of love and betrayal propel this sweeping and dramatic novel as it moves between Regency London on the cusp of modernity—a city in love with science, the machine, money—and the shocking violence of war in Spain. With dazzling skill Stella Tillyard explores not only the effects of war on the men at the front but also the freedoms it offers the women left behind. As Harriet befriends the older and protective Kitty, Lady Wellington, her life begins to change in unexpected ways. Meanwhile, James is seduced by the violence of battle, and then by love in Seville. As the novel moves between war and peace, Spain and London, its large cast of characters includes the serial adulterer and war hero the Duke of Wellington, and the émigrés Nathan Rothschild and Frederic Winsor who will usher in the future, creating a world brightly lit by gaslight where credit and financial speculation rule. Whether describing the daily lives and desires of strong female characters or the horror of battle, Tides of War is set to be the fiction debut of the year.

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369

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429996994

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9781429996990

George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

King in Waiting

By: Stella Tillyard

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George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

King in Waiting

By: Stella Tillyard

George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.

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Penguin UK

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0141978864

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Call Upon the Water

A Novel

By: Stella Tillyard

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Call Upon the Water

A Novel

By: Stella Tillyard

This “story of passion, possession, and a painful education in love” (Sarah Dunant, author of In the Name of the Family), spanning several decades in 17th-century Great Britain and America, evocatively explores the power of nature versus man and man versus woman by “a lovely writer [who] can take your breath away” (The New York Times Book Review). I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I prefer to weigh everything in the balance, to calculate and to plan. Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count. In 1649, Jan Brunt arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of marshy wetlands known as the Great Level. It is here in this wild country that he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her strive beyond her situation, Jan is heedless of her devotion to her home and way of life. When she uses the education Jan has given her to sabotage his work, Eliza is brutally punished, and Jan flees to the New World. In the American colonies, profiteers are hungry for viable land to develop, and Jan’s skills as an engineer are highly prized. His prosperous new life is rattled, however, on a spring morning when a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the Great Level, and confront all that was lost there. Eliza has made it to the New World and is once again using the education Jan gave her to bend the landscape—this time to find her own place of freedom. Perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Geraldine Brooks, Call Upon the Water is “a haunting book with characters who stay with the reader as their lives unfold like a sea mist” (Philippa Gregory, New York Times bestselling author). Note: This book was published in the UK under the title The Great Level.

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Atria Books

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1982120975

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9781982120979

The Great Level

By: Stella Tillyard

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The Great Level

By: Stella Tillyard

A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened world In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great Level, an expanse of marsh in the heart of the fen country. It is here he meets Eliza, whose love overturns his ordered vision and whose act of resistance forces him to see the world differently. Jan flees to the New World, where the spirit of avarice is raging and his skills as an engineer are prized. Then one spring morning a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the fens, and confront all that was lost there. ‘The most beautiful historical novel you’ll read all year... Extraordinary’ Simon Schama ‘Richly involving... The story of a strange and passionate relationship’ Guardian ‘If you want to be utterly transported to another time, another place, read The Great Level. A haunting depiction of love and difference’ Amanda Vickery

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Random House

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1473546370

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Aristocrats

Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832

By: S. K. Tillyard

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Aristocrats

Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832

By: S. K. Tillyard

The Lennox Sisters--great-granddaughters of a king, daughters of a cabinet minister, and wives of politicians and peers--lived lives of real public significance, but the private texture of their family-centered world mattered to them and they shared their experiences with each other in countless letters. From this hitherto unknown archive, Stella Tillyard has constructed a group biography of privileged eighteenth-century women who, she shows, have much to tell us about our own time.

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406

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Farrar Straus Giroux

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0374524475

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9780374524470

Citizen Lord

The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary

By: Stella Tillyard

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Citizen Lord

The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary

By: Stella Tillyard

From personal letters & other sources, Stella Tillyard has recreated the life of a headstrong aristocrat who died & martyred rebel for the cause of Irish independence. Lord Edward Fitzgerald joined the British army as a teenager, but radical sentiments soon prevailed over loyalty to the Crown. In North America in 1787, he spent time with the Iroquois; back in Europe, he became a disciple of Thomas Paine & joined the Irish underground. Even his love life was political - from his tragic affair with the wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan to his marriage to the daughter of a French Republican. Lord Edward was plotting for Ireland's independence when, as the bloody rebellion of 1798 raged around him, he was mortally wounded by British soldiers.

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Farrar Straus & Giroux

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0374525897

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9780374525897

Aristocrats

The Illustrated Companion to the Television Series

By: S. K. Tillyard

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Aristocrats

The Illustrated Companion to the Television Series

By: S. K. Tillyard

Describes the lives of four eighteenth-century sisters

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208

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited

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0297825054

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9780297825050

Tides of War

By: Stella Tillyard

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Tides of War

By: Stella Tillyard

A novel set in Regency London and Spain during the Peninsular War. At the centre stands Harriet, the young, outspoken heroine, on the threshold of adult life. Her soldier husband, James, is about to set off to join Wellington's troops in Spain.

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517

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1445851091

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9781445851099

Seven B

By: Stella Cameron

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Seven B

By: Stella Cameron

7B by Stella Cameron released on Feb 22, 2001 is available now for purchase.

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452

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MIRA

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1551667959

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9781551667959

This Is the End (Dodo Press)

By: Stella Benson

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This Is the End (Dodo Press)

By: Stella Benson

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist travel writer and novelist. Stella was noted for being compassionate and interested in social issues. Like her older female relatives, she supported women's suffrage. During World War I, she supported the troops by gardening and by helping poor women in London's East End at The Charity Organisation Society. These efforts inspired Benson to write novels I Pose (1915) and This Is the End (1917). She took on a job at The University of California as a tutor, then as an editorial reader for The University Press. These experiences inspired her next work, The Poor Man (1922). Benson's writings kept coming, but her later works are not well known today. Goodbye, Stranger was written in 1926, followed by The Man Who Missed the Bus in 1928 and finally Tobit Transplanted in 1930, which won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize.

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1406548499

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9781406548495

Book's by Stella Tillyard

Aristocrats

Aristocrats

Call Upon the Water

Call Upon the Water

Tides of War

Tides of War

George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

Call Upon the Water

Call Upon the Water

The Great Level

The Great Level

Aristocrats

Aristocrats

Citizen Lord

Citizen Lord

Aristocrats

Aristocrats

Tides of War

Tides of War

Seven B

Seven B

This Is the End (Dodo Press)

This Is the End (Dodo Press)

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