Publication date: 1999-03-26
Dewey code: 362.8297092
RRP: £16.50
Price: £14.95
Review These are My Children, Too / PublicAffairs,U.S.:
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 1995-10-01
Dewey code: 820
RRP: £14.50
Price: £10.75
Review The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-century England / John Hopkins University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-10-25
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography / Penguin:
Publication date: 1982
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: £11.45
Review All That Summer She Was Mad: Virginia Woolf, Female Victim of Male Medicine / Continuum Intl Pub Group:
Publication date: 2005-10-06
RRP: £18.99
Price: £2.30
Review Climbing the Mango Trees / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2001-06-28
Dewey code: 810
RRP: £18.99
Price: £12.59
Review Louisa May Alcott and "Little Women": Biography, Critique, Publications, Poems, Songs, and Contemporary Relevance / iUniverse.com:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-02
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £9.78
Price: £3.37
Review Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood / Amistad Press:
Publication date: 2000-02-20
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £7.61
Price: £4.37
Review Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith / Anchor Books:
Edition: Updated & Expanded
Publication date: 2001-03-01
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £18.95
Price: £8.87
Review Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 1999-12-05
Dewey code: 781.6420922
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.34
Review All About the Dixie Chicks / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Publication date: 2006-04-21
Dewey code: 364.1523092273
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.57
Review Back From The Dead: One Woman's Search for the Men Who Walked Off America's Death Row / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2008-01-15
Dewey code: 220.92
RRP: £8.50
Price: £3.29
Review The Bare Bones Bible BIOS: 10 Minutes to Knowing the Men and Women of the Bible / Harvest House Publishers:
Publication date: 2006-08-08
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £18.29
Price: £3.24
Review James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon / St. Martin's Press:
Publication date: 1995-08
Dewey code: 796.342092
RRP: £13.06
Price: £25.95
Review Martina: The Lives and Times of Martina Navratilova / Birch Lane Pr:
Creator: Henrietta Leyser
Publication date: 2008-02-14
Dewey code: 271.9
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.67
Review The Life of Christina of Markyate (Oxford World's Classics) / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-07-04
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.15
Review Life Itself!: An Autobiography / Virago Press Ltd:The exclamatory trill of the title alone, Life Itself!, suggests an exuberance to Elaine Dundy's mostly jaunty memoirs but also an insecurity. One of three Brimberg sisters from a wealthy New York Jewish background, her grand father, a Latvian immigrant, had invented a type of screw that made his fortune. Elaine's designs, however, were more on screwball fun. Drawn to the stage, she left America for Paris and wrote The Dud Avocado, published to popular acclaim in 1958, which described her salad days as a rich young socialite in the French capital. Fascinated with the sassy, vivacious actresses of pre-war Hollywood and their witty, charming, suave leading-men, along came Kenneth Tynan, enfant terrible of 1950s English critical journalism. He carried a fearsome, bullying swagger reminiscent of Dundy's violent and abusive father. While she wanted to be a character created by Tennessee Williams, she fell in love with men written by "Papa" Hemingway. So she married Tynan. Life Itself! is most intriguing in its depiction of Dundy's relationship with Tynan, though the details of his sado-masochistic "Oxford practices" have been well documented elsewhere, in his second wife Kathleen Tynan's The Life of Kenneth Tynan. Life with Ken, a Barbie in her flurry of frocks and socialising, saw Dundy circulate with a gilded cast of associates, rarely dull and never unknown: Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Cyril Connolly, Marilyn Monroe, Henry Green and Gore Vidal make frequent appearances, as she commiserates with the wives of Peters Brook and Ustinov how hard it is for actresses with illustrious partners to find work. [+]Once the heart stops bleeding, what redeems passages of flapper frippery are when the screwball wit kicks in, or she pauses to allow her writing the space it cries out for, and justifies when allowed. When she finally left Tynan, after a brutal attack and serial psychological sadism, she produced mediocre plays, reasonable journalism, fuelled by the pills and booze which nearly ended her life. Rescued by electro-therapy and a discovered love of Elvis (of whom she wrote a respected biography, Elvis and Gladys), one hopes she is allowed to live out her days in California with peaceful reflections and calmer syntax. -David Vincent.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-02-01
Dewey code: 810.809287086927
Price: £8.94
Review Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters / ReganBooks:
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 282.092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.54
Review Hildegard of Bingen: Devotions, Prayers and Living Wisdom (Devotions, Prayers, and Living Wisdom): Devotions, Prayers and Living Wisdom (Devotions, Prayers, and Living Wisdom) / Sounds True Inc.,U.S.:
Publication date: 2007-02-22
Dewey code: 362.196852620092
RRP: £16.35
Price: £7.50
Review Gaining: The Truth about Life After Eating Disorders / Warner Books:
Authors
- National Geographic Society
Publication date: 2000-09-28
Dewey code: 910.82
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.62
Review "National Geographic" Expedition Journal / National Geographic Books:
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These are My Children, Too, The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-century England, Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography, All That Summer She Was Mad: Virginia Woolf, Female Victim of Male Medicine, Climbing the Mango Trees, Louisa May Alcott and "Little Women": Biography, Critique, Publications, Poems, Songs, and Contemporary Relevance, Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul, All About the Dixie Chicks, Back From The Dead: One Woman's Search for the Men Who Walked Off America's Death Row, The Bare Bones Bible BIOS: 10 Minutes to Knowing the Men and Women of the Bible, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Martina: The Lives and Times of Martina Navratilova, The Life of Christina of Markyate (Oxford World's Classics), Life Itself!: An Autobiography, Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters, Hildegard of Bingen: Devotions, Prayers and Living Wisdom (Devotions, Prayers, and Living Wisdom): Devotions, Prayers and Living Wisdom (Devotions, Prayers, and Living Wisdom), Gaining: The Truth about Life After Eating Disorders, "National Geographic" Expedition Journal |
