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Anson House

By: Victoria Ann Astor

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It was in 1859 that Cristian Martin, a poor blacksmith's son saw villagers who became involved in escapades that ultimately brought them to a trial of a traitor, during which soldiers and many villagers were killed during a scuffle, the boy who admired the ladies gowns of the day, found himself suddenly changed from a boy into a girl, to save him from the law, a role he would continue the rest of his life, when his sister Charlotte bought Anson House and became lady of the manor and making both the boy and herself the richest family in Cornwall. Even though he came to regret his change from man to woman on many occasions and he found romance with another young man of the village Robert Phillips.

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1546260943

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Steel-True 1907-1940

By: Victoria Wilson

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Steel-True 1907-1940

By: Victoria Wilson

“860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound (eighty-eight motion pictures) and lasted in television from its infancy in the 1950s through the 1980s. Here is Stanwyck, revealed as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock; her years in New York as a dancer and Broadway star; her fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius; the adoption of a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with Zeppo Marx (the “unfunny Marx brother”) who altered the course of Stanwyck’s movie career and with her created one of the finest horse breeding farms in the west; and her fairytale romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor, America’s most sought-after male star. Here is the shaping of her career through 1940 with many of Hollywood's most important directors, among them Frank Capra, “Wild Bill” William Wellman, George Stevens, John Ford, King Vidor, Cecil B. Demille, Preston Sturges, set against the times—the Depression, the New Deal, the rise of the unions, the advent of World War II, and a fast-changing, coming-of-age motion picture industry. And at the heart of the book, Stanwyck herself—her strengths, her fears, her frailties, losses, and desires—how she made use of the darkness in her soul, transforming herself from shunned outsider into one of Hollywood’s most revered screen actresses. Fifteen years in the making—and written with full access to Stanwyck’s family, friends, colleagues and never-before-seen letters, journals, and photographs. Wilson’s one-of-a-kind biography—“large, thrilling, and sensitive” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country)—is an “epic Hollywood narrative” (USA TODAY), “so readable, and as direct as its subject” (The New York Times). With 274 photographs, many published for the first time.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439194068

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9781439194065

Master's Tale - A Novel of the Titanic

By: Ann Victoria Roberts

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Master's Tale - A Novel of the Titanic

By: Ann Victoria Roberts

Locked in a place beyond time, only the truth can set Titanic's Master free.Haunted by his final voyage, Captain Smith relives his past: the ships he sailed, the women he loved, his rise from humble beginnings to become White Star's most eminent captain. A lucky man: until an incident with HMS Hawke throws time - and White Star's plans - into disarray.Under pressure, Captain Smith agrees to one more voyage. Aboard Titanic the seas are calm but other forces are at work. Fire threatens from below, and ice lies ahead. Amongst the passengers, WT Stead - journalist and psychic - is predicting danger, while a mysterious young woman brings an old love affair to life.But the past cannot be changed: nor the events of that tragic night in April 1912. Burdened by guilt, Titanic's Master makes the voyage again, seeking his fatal mistake...Memories loom out of the mist like the sails of a schooner, skimming past my bridge with a tangible rush and barely a yard to spare...Uncovering dramatic and little-known events, Ann Victoria Roberts explores themes of time and coincidence in this haunting novel, based on the life of Captain Edward John Smith.

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eBook Partnership

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1783017090

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9781783017096

Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

By: Victoria Sackville-West

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Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

By: Victoria Sackville-West

Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known or her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens. Here, for the first time, is an anthology that represents the full expanse of her interests and styles. Over half of the works, including intimate diaries and a dream notebook, have never been published. Edited by a foremost expert on the Bloomsbury circle, Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings provides the best and most accessible introduction to this unique writer.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403963185

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9781403963185

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin

A Hollywood Memoir

By: Victoria Riskin

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Fay Wray and Robert Riskin

A Hollywood Memoir

By: Victoria Riskin

The daughter of the actress best known for "King Kong" and the screenwriter for "It Happened One Night" presents a dual memoir that describes her parents' lives and work, her father's collaborations with Frank Capra, and his early death.

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Pantheon

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1524747289

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9781524747282

Anson House

By: Victoria Ann Astor

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Anson House

Anson House

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Master's Tale - A Novel of the Titanic

Master's Tale - A Novel of the Titanic

Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin

Anson House

Anson House

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