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All you'll need and more!

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...It was around four months ago that I was introduced to the work of Eva Gore-Booth. Sister of Constance Markievicz, Gore-Booth moved away from her aristocratic heritage in Ireland to live in Manchester at the end of the nineteenth-century. It was there tha ...

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Review of Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics - Sonja Tiernan

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"The shamrock is growing on the grave of James Connolly..."

Advantages: informative, engaging, a lot of information!
Disadvantages: Not the easiest to read for an introduction to Connolly!

..."There are no flowers blooming but the shamrock is growing on the grave of James Connolly, the Irish Rebel." - The Ballad of James Connolly It was inevitable that my studying of the Easter Rising was going to allow James Connolly to be introduced into my ...

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Review of The Life and Times of James Connolly - Charles Desmond Greaves

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The Story of a Remarkable Woman, Hannah Hauxwell.

Advantages: A beautifully written book
Disadvantages: None in my opinion

Review of 'Hannah, The Complete Story' by Hannah Hauxwell with Barry Cockcroft. I am reviewing the hardback version of the book, published by Random Century Group Ltd. 320 pages, ISBN 0712651144, cover price £17.99. Genre Biography/Autobiography The ...

brittle1906 26.04.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Hannah: The Complete Story - Hannah Hauxwell

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The undisputed queen of Regency romance

Advantages: Interesting and informative
Disadvantages: More likely to be of interest to Heyer fans

It's almost forty years since Georgette Heyer died and yet with the exception of the five titles she herself had suppressed, all of her novels are still in print and still selling in large quantities and year on year she's still attracting new readers. By ...

ladybracknell 27.01.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller - Jennifer Kloester

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The Book of Jobs

Advantages: Lots of access to the subject, honest, incredibly well written
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When I was growing up I was fascinated to learn about the late 19th century pioneers who were responsible for the things we all took for granted in the 20th century - men like Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison and Henry Ford. Here were men who cre ...

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Review of Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography - Walter Isaacson

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