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19 produkter
Radical Romance
A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation
Av Alison Light
Häftad, 2020
187 kr
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WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art' GuardianAlison Light met the charismatic social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Within a …
Mrs Woolf and the Servants
Av Alison Light
E-bok, 2007
125 kr
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Loathing, anger, shame – and deep affection: Virginia Woolf’s relationship with her servants was central to her life. Like thousands of her fellow Britons she relied on live-in domestics for the most intimate of daily tasks. Her cook and parlour maid relieved her of the burden of housework and …
Mrs Woolf and the Servants
Av Alison Light
Häftad, 2008
203 kr
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Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants – cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf’s extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, …
Common People
The History of An English Family
Av Alison Light
Häftad, 2015
160 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize'Part detective story, part Dickensian saga, part labour history. A thrilling and unnerving read' Observer 'Mesmeric and deeply moving' Daily Telegraph 'Remarkable, haunting, full of wisdom' The TimesFamily history is a massive phenomenon of our times …
Common People
The History of An English Family
Av Alison Light
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize'A remarkable achievement...should become a classic.' - Margaret Drabble'Light writes beautifully...Common People is part memoir, part thrilling social history of the England of the Industrial Revolution, but above all a work of quiet poetry and insight …
Radical Romance
A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation
Av Alison Light
E-bok, 2019
147 kr
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WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'The greatest memoirs offer all the complex shades and colours that we expect in fiction. A Radical Romance is more than just some summing-up: it is a work of art' GuardianAlison Light met the charismatic social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Within a …
Common People
The History of An English Family
Av Alison Light
Ljudbok, 2015
140 kr
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Common People: The History of An English Family by Alison Light, read by Caroline Laskowska. Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her …
Forever England
Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
Av Alison Light
Inbunden, 1991
2893 kr
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Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we …
Forever England
Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
Av Alison Light
Häftad, 2013
998 kr
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Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we …
Forever England
Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
Av Alison Light
E-bok, 2013
1150 kr
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Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we …
Forever England
Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
Av Alison Light
E-bok, 2013
1150 kr
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Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we …
Alison Light – Inside History
From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing
Av Alison Light
Inbunden, 2021
2270 kr
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Alison Light – Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of …
Alison Light – Inside History
From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing
Av Alison Light
Häftad, 2023
518 kr
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A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's workProvides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist cultural politics to new readersOffers a way into a variety of texts and genres including popular fiction, …
Red, Red Robin
My Long Goodbye to Home
Av Alison Light
Inbunden, 2026
252 kr
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'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' DAVID KYNASTON'A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history' CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red, Red Robin, Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood from the 1950s to the 1970s, …
Red, Red Robin
My Long Goodbye to Home
Av Alison Light
Häftad, 2027
152 kr
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'Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain' David Kynaston'Fascinating social history' Clare Chambers'Light paints a fantastically vivid picture of the era' Sunday TimesAlison Light conjures her girlhood growing up in 1950s Portsmouth, a blitzed city with its collective memory of …
Red, Red Robin
My Long Goodbye to Home
Av Alison Light
E-bok, 2026
167 kr
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''Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain'' DAVID KYNASTON ''A winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history'' CLARE CHAMBERS In Red, Red Robin , Alison Light puts herself into history, conjuring her girlhood from the 1950s to the …
Island Stories
Unravelling Britain: Theatres of Memory, Volume II
Av Raphael Samuel, Alison Light m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
416 kr
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A luminous sequel to the highly acclaimed first volume of Theatres of Memory, Island Stories is an engrossing journey of discovery into the multiple meanings of national myths, their anchorage in daily life and their common sense of a people's destiny. Raphael Samuel reveals the palimpsest of …
