and had previously worked for Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, who was Mary Queen of Scots’s gaoler. There were even rumours that Shrewsbury was having an affair with Mary; his wife, Bess of Hardwick, is certainly said to have believed it. It is probably while working for Shrewsbury th...
around the time thatFlowers of Emptiness: Reflections on an Ashramwas published. Feeling attacked by her friend, Brooke wrote an article titled “The Myth of the Responsible Mother” that appeared inThe Guardianin May 1982. “I’d like to say something about motherhood from the ...
[6] It is a myth that the world economy can continue as usual, whatever happens to energy supply and growing debt. China’s homebuilding problems could, in theory, lead to debt bubbles crashing around the world. The world economy depends upon a growing bubble of debt. It also depends on...
o Reveals how Karahan Tepe was used by shamans to connect with the Milky Way's Galactic bulge in its role as the head of the cosmic serpent o Explains how the site's builders, who created the world's first post ice age civilization, are remembered in myth and legend as the Watchers ...
Find it: Goodreads Waterstones Source: The author kindly gave me a copy of this book Rating: 5/5 stars Synopsis Seeking a better life, Ree and Javani have traveled west into the mountains, and left their pasts – and their troubles – behind. But new places bring new problems, and when...
–A Waterstones ‘Book You Need to Read in 2024’–A Guardian‘Five Great Reads’"This is a book for anyone who finds it difficult to believe in a better future. It's the most uplifting book I've read all year"–Ben Cooke, The Times"An unmissable myth-busting book to save our ...
and here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history of the Deafblind experience,Being Seenexplores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact, and the damage it do...
Find it:GoodreadsWaterstones Source:I bought a copy of this online Rating:3/5 stars Synopsis Following a scandal at Vauxhall pleasure gardens, Camille is sent away to her reclusive godmother, who keeps a strict watch over her and her own sickly daughter, Lucy. Camille must stay away from eve...
“Translated into the ghastly jargon of our times” writes Musil later in the novel, “we could call this faculty we all lack to such a frightening degree nowadays ‘the percentual share’ of an individual’s experiences and actions”. In dream, myth, poetry and childhood “it’s ...
In her 2000 book,Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History, Janet Gabler-Hover shows that there were at least thirteen Hagar novels –all by women — published between 1850 and 1913. In fact, the number of Hagar novels is enough that some scholars (including ...