Rebecca West (Häftad)
avVictoria Glendinning
ISBN: 9780571296033 - UTGIVEN: 2012-07'I had never met anything like her before', H.G. Wells wrote of meeting Rebecca West in 1913, 'and I doubt if there ever was anything like her before'. Born Cicily Fairfield, West renamed herself after the character she had once played in Ibsen's "Rosmersholm". Her ten-year affair with H.G. Wells yi[...]
Leonard Woolf: A Biography (Inbunden)
avVictoria Glendinning
ISBN: 9780743246538 - UTGIVEN: 200611An account of the life and career of the Bloomsbury political intellectual and husband of Virginia Woolf covers his comfortable Jewish childhood, role in inspiring the League of Nations, and relationships with such figures as E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. 40,000 first printing.[...]
Leonard Woolf (Häftad)
avVictoria Glendinning
ISBN: 9781416526070 - UTGIVEN: 2007-09Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning has written the first biography of the publisher, writer, activist and husband at the heart of the Bloom[...]
Raffles (Inbunden)
avVictoria Glendinning
ISBN: 9781846686030 - UTGIVEN: 201211This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and c[...]
