Edition: Har/Com
Publication date: 2006-10-01
Dewey code: 791.43028092
RRP: £30.00
Price: £14.14
Review Edie: Girl on Fire / Chronicle Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-10-21
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.49
Review The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman / Birlinn Ltd:
Authors
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-11-25
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.30
Review The Life of Charlotte Bronte / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Laurel Ulrich
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
Publication date: 1991-06
Dewey code: 974.16
RRP: £15.95
Price: £5.81
Review A Midwife's Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 / Vintage Books:
Authors
- Melanie Klier
- Christiane Weidemann
- Petra Larass
Dewey code: 709
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.05
Review 50 Women Artists You Should Know (50 You Should Know) (50 You Should Know) / Prestel:
Publication date: 2003-03-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: £7.99
Review Ahead of the Class / John Murray:
Publication date: 2008-06-02
Dewey code: 791.45092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.84
Review Fearne Cotton - The Amazing Story of Britain's Brightest Young TV Star / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-09-25
RRP: £17.99
Price: £22.99
Review Taking on the World / Michael Joseph Ltd:When Ellen MacArthur became the youngest person ever to complete yachting's most gruelling race, the Vendée Globe, she also assured herself of a place in sporting history as the fastest woman ever to circumnavigate the globe. As the world watched the images of her disasters and triumphs aboard her boat, MacArthur swiftly entered that pantheon of sportsmen and women whose emotional life we came to share over and above their achievements in their chosen field. We strove against the elements with her, we suffered with her when disaster loomed-and, finally, we could all take vicarious pleasure in her ultimate triumph. This autobiography proves to have been more than worth the wait. The insights we are granted here into just what MacArthur went through genuinely tug at the heart-and never in any sentimental or manipulative way. Her very air of "ordinariness" (no film-star looks, no breast-beating egomania as in all too many sports personalities) was refreshing, but it's that monumental endurance and skill she demonstrated on her epic voyage that commands our admiration. The earlier sections of the book, detailing her childhood in Derbyshire (quite some distance from the sea) may have us impatient for her great ocean adventure, but they're skilfully and affectingly written. And when she begins her preparations for the Vendée Globe, we take a deep breath, knowing that we'll experience all the arduous adventure and danger that is facing her. Some may argue that autobiographies are being written by younger and younger authors, with their lives still ahead of them. But surely (in this case) the timing is perfect. [+]-Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Natasha Garnett
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-04-09
Dewey code: 133
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.70
Review From One World to Another / Pan Books:
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2006-08-01
Dewey code: 973.931092
Price: £13.99
Review Bunny Tales / Perseus Books,U.S.:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1990-09-30
Dewey code: 818.5409
RRP: £7.78
Price: £3.41
Review The Writing Life / HarperPerennial:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1992-03-01
Dewey code: 973.917092
RRP: £18.95
Price: £6.89
Review The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (Quality Paperbacks Series) / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 2008-02-07
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.41
Review Please Let it Stop: The True Story of an Abused Childhood / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2008-06-30
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.33
Review Stolen Time: One Woman's Inspiring Story as an Innocent Condemned to Death / Bantam Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-01-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.09
Review The Bronte Myth / Vintage:The Bronte Myth traces the various ways the Brontes have been interpreted by an ever-increasing and increasingly dotty fanbase from their own lifetimes through the end of the 19th and into the 20th century. The book treats first Charlotte then Emily, leaving Anne pretty much out of the picture, since (Miller argues) she has "never taken on the mythic stature of her sisters in her own right", which is hard luck for any dedicated Anne-fans; but Miller certainly finds many absorbing things to say about the other two sisters. The point of the study is to examine the way interpretations of these two women have shifted so kaleidoscopically over the last century-and-a-half. Charlotte is seen in Gaskell's Life as "paragon of womanhood", then, as the century ends and the vogue for self-improvement takes hold, as a self-taught writer who had risen from obscurity. The 20th century brought the revelation of her thwarted passion for a Belgian schoolteacher, and she became an embodiment of smouldering unfulfilled sexual intensity. Emily, more neglected earlier on, came into her own in the latter part of the last century, revered as "the mystic of the moors". Both women of course were icons of the feminist literary movement in the 1960s, and their popularity continues today in the academy; but they are loved outside the university as well, appealing (says Miller) particularly to shy, lonely, bookish children. Miller skilfully weaves a narrative of the developing Bronte myth, paralleling it with the development of the art of biography itself, allowing the two to illuminate one another. Sometimes, reading through the trivia (Bronte chocolate and biscuits, D-grade critical studies and so on) the reader might wonder if the subject really merits such in-depth treatment. But in tracing this story, Miller has good points to make about the way a biography is always, to one degree or another, a fiction, reflecting the concerns of the age in which it is produced. [+]For anybody interested in the Brontes, or interested in what Virginia Woolf called the "bastard, impure art of biography" there is a great deal here of interest. -Adam Roberts.
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom: An Outrageous Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom / Phoenix mass market p/bk:
Publication date: 2003-08-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.59
Review Avril Lavigne / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2008-11-24
RRP: £12.99
Price: £11.17
Review Women in Leadership: Five Routes to Success in Business / Arena Books:
Publication date: 2006-08-03
Dewey code: 941.44085092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.06
Review Handstands in the Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2002-05-01
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.68
Review The Wilder Shores of Love / Carroll & Graf Publishing:
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