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Introduction to Sally
Elizabeth Von Arnim; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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A Pygmalion-style story told with von Arnim’s characteristic wit
and charm, this novel introduces us to Salvatia (known as Sally), a
much longed-for child to humble shopkeepers. Sally grows up to be
an extremely beautiful girl, attracting the attentions of every man
who sees her. When her mother dies, her father decides it is just
too difficult to defend her virtue and marries her to the first man
who proposes. But Jocelyn is about to learn a lesson in marrying
for looks alone. The two are from very different classes and have
nothing in common: beauty can only bridge the gap so far.
Meanwhile, his mother is being pursued by her own unsuitable suitor
– debating if she can tolerate his crass personality in return
for the security of his wealth. Von Arnim turns her ironic humour
to great effect in showing us the follies of her cast of
characters, whom we can’t help wishing the best for, despite
everything.
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War Among Ladies (Paperback)
Eleanor Scott; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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R315
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Miss Cullen finds herself in a dreadful predicament. Four years
from retirement, she can no longer meet the educational standards
expected nor control her pupils at Besley High School for girls.
She knows that no other school will hire her now, but if she is
sacked or doesn't work until she's 60, she will lose her pension.
Her only hope is to hang on. But her poor exam results affect the
standing of the whole school. Her colleagues embark on a campaign
against her to save their own positions and she retaliates by
involving the school inspector. Into this hostile environment comes
Viola Kennedy, a young new teacher full of optimism and ideas, who
instead gets caught up in the conspiracies and swirling
resentments. A quietly devastating novel about the realities of
life for single working women in the 1920s and the systems that
failed them.
When her bohemian life in Paris falls flat at the beginning of the
First World War, Sally Lunton returns to the care of her guardian
in Little Crampton to find a husband. With some encouragement from
the local busybody, she makes a play for Mr Bingley, the bank
manager, although she has a rival in Mrs Dalton, a widow with a
young daughter to raise. These two ladies form a quiet alliance,
recognising that the prize isn't really worth fighting over but
respecting the other's pursuit of financial security. Sally aims to
win but is distracted by her unsettling emotions for a soldier
tortured by his experience at the Front. This entertaining novel is
full of acute and humorous observations of male and female
attitudes to love and marriage. Sally is a spirited heroine, who is
determined to settle into a comfortable life now that she is in her
early thirties. But in securing her future, Sally must also face
her past.
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One Year's Time (Paperback)
Angela Milne; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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R261
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'She got up, without meeting his eyes, and went into the bedroom to
dress. That was life all over; you wanted to make a good exit, and
you remembered you were still in your housecoat.' Single girl Liza
leaps into an exciting new sexual relationship with Walter after
the couple meet at a New Year's party. Written by Angela Milne, the
niece of A. A. Milne, and originally published in 1942, the story
shines a light on subtly changing societal attitudes and deftly
captures Liza's euphoria and frustrations as she navigates a
relationship outside of marriage. Warm, witty and surprising, it
leaves you wondering why Milne only wrote one novel.
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Rugby Lives
Simon Thomas
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Tension (Paperback)
E.M. Delafield; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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“I know that things of that kind always are known, and the people
I’ve been thrown with, sooner or later, always turned out to have
heard the story. Or if they hadn’t,” said Miss Marchrose in a
voice of calm despair, “someone took the trouble to tell them.”
Miss Marchrose is about to discover that she cannot escape her past
when she takes up a new position at a secretarial college in the
south west of England. Following insinuations dropped by the
director’s wife, she becomes the subject of a whispering campaign
which threatens her professional career and personal happiness.
Tension examines reputation and the persistence of gossip in
relation to a woman’s choice of work and domestic arrangements
with a light touch of humour. The two main female characters
represent the different roles of women in public life: Lady
Rossiter uses her social position to influence college matters,
while Miss Marchrose is a professional woman who brings
qualifications and experience to her role.
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O, the Brave Music (Paperback)
Dorothy Evelyn Smith; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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A female narrator looks back on her childhood in a coming-of-age
novel set before the First World War. Ruan is an intelligent and
imaginative child, who gradually comes to understand the nuances of
the adult world around her, as she moves from the Manse, under the
strict rule of her father, a non-conformist minister, to Cobbetts,
her mother's ancestral home, under the tutelage of her Uncle
Alaric, and back to the guardianship of Rosie Day at Bolton House
high up on the moor above the town where she was born. Her young
life is shaped by a series of tragedies, but also the warmth of
enduring friendships, particularly with David, her dearest friend
who shares her love of the wild expanse and colours of the moor.
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Which Way? (Paperback)
Simon Thomas; Theodora Benson
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R311
R253
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'There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the
light of the skies, if any, was shut out. ... Only the fire was
alive, consuming its life-for what? Then the door opened and as
Claudia came with hurried steps into the fire's glow, two open
letters in her hand, the telephone began ringing. She shut the door
and turned up the lights.' Claudia Heseltine returns to this moment
three times in a series of parallel narratives. As the novel
presses the re-set button, she accepts each invitation, one by
telephone, two by letter, to a specific social event, and in doing
so her life goes down a different path with its own possibilities
and achievements, sorrows and disappointments. This is an inventive
novel, published in 1931, which contemplates the consequences of a
single decision.
'Oh God, one should not go to parties, Daisy sighed, sinking in wan
defeat in the melancholy dawn. One should not mingle with others;
one should keep oneself to oneself...' Lying awake after a hotel
party on holiday in the Mediterranean, Daisy Simpson reflects on
her lacklustre social performance and muses on the impression her
confident and graceful half-sister Daphne may have made on the
other guests. What is it that makes Daphne, Daphne and Daisy,
Daisy? And which of the two will attract the attentions of one of
their hosts, Raymond, whom they have both fallen for? Returning to
London, Daisy's life is strained by the efforts of presenting the
right elements of her personality to the right people, resulting in
embarrassments, difficulties and deceits as she navigates her
relationships and social standing. Rose Macaulay's novel, first
published in 1928, offers a sharp and witty commentary on how we
twist our identities to fit, delivered in an intelligent and
innovative style.
David Tompkins thinks it is a splendid idea to open a tea garden at
his Kentish cottage. His wife, Germayne, is not so sure. The local
villagers are divided on the matter, and not necessarily
supportive, particularly Mr Perch at the Dolphin, who sees it as
direct competition to Mrs Perch's own tea garden. It doesn't bode
well when the official opening coincides with a break in the
beautiful weather. Things are further complicated by the arrival of
the 'cake cook' Mimi, a Viennese girl with a mysterious past,
Germayne's daughter Ducks, and finally her 'rather stolid'
ex-husband Digby. With rumour rife that the couple are - whisper it
- not actually married, the lady of the manor, who has failed to
realise that nowadays that title carries no real weight, makes it
her mission to shut the enterprise down.
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Strange Journey (Paperback)
Maud Cairnes; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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R311
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In this body swap comedy from the 1930s, the minds of two
strangers, aristocrat Lady Elizabeth and middle-class Polly
Wilkinson, switch places with baffling and hilarious results. With
wry observations on class, behaviour and relationships, as both
attempt to navigate the different social settings and awkward
situations they suddenly find themselves thrust into - the switches
taking place randomly with very little warning - the two women are
eventually able to contrive a meeting and learn to control their
'gift' and effect positive changes in each others' lives.
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The Love Child (Paperback)
Edith Olivier; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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'She had saved her. But at what a cost! Her position, her name, her
character - she had given them all, but Clarissa was hers.' Upon
the death of her mother, Agatha Bodenham finds herself alone for
the first time in her life. Solitary and socially awkward by
nature, she starts to dream about her imaginary childhood friend -
the only friend she ever had. Much to her surprise, Clarissa starts
to appear, fleetingly at first, and engage with her, and eventually
becomes visible to everyone else. Agatha, a 32-year- old spinster,
must explain the child's 'sudden' appearance. In a moment of panic,
she pretends that Clarissa is her own daughter, her love child.
Olivier constructs a mother/daughter relationship which is both
poignant and playful. As the years roll by and Clarissa grows into
a beautiful young woman, Agatha's love becomes increasingly
obsessive as she senses Clarissa slipping away, attracted by new
interests and people her own age.
Julia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a more exciting
and glamorous life away from the drab suburbia of her upbringing.
Her work in a fashionable boutique in the West End gives her the
personal freedom that she craves but escape from her parental home
into marriage soon leads to boredom and frustration. She begins a
passionate affair with a younger man, which has deadly
consequences. Based on the events of a sensational murder trial in
the 1920s - the Thompson/Bywaters case - Julia becomes trapped by
her sex and class in a criminal justice system in which she has no
control. Julia finds herself the victim of society's expectations
of lower-middle-class female behaviour and incriminated by her own
words. Tennyson Jesse creates a flawed, doomed heroine in a novel
of creeping unease that continues to haunt long after the last page
is turned.
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Mamma (Paperback)
Diana Tutton; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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‘Joanna sat with her cheek against her [Libby’s] shining hair.
She had hardly thought of Steven since he slammed his way out of
the house, but now, welling up within her and pouring out over her
love for Libby, came an intolerable flood of envy.’ Widowed at 21
with a young baby, Joanna Malling finds her solitary existence
upended twenty years later when her daughter Libby moves in with
her new husband. At 35, Steven is closer in age to Joanna than
Libby. What begins as an awkward relationship between mother and
son-in-law evolves into something more intimate and Joanna must
wrestle with re-awakened emotions and the conflict between desire
and loyalty.
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Dangerous Ages (Paperback)
Rose Macaulay; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three
generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced
at each of those stages in life. The book opens with Neville
celebrating her 43rd birthday and contemplating middle age now that
her children are grown. Her mother, in her sixties, seeks answers
to her melancholy in Freudianism. Her sister, Nan, 33, a writer who
has hitherto led a single and carefree life in London, experiences
the loss of love and with it her plan for the future. And Neville's
principled daughter Gerda, who is determined not to follow her
mother's generation into the institute of marriage, finds herself
at an impasse with the man she loves.
Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often
depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In
addition, the use of customary law alongside national law is
frequently portrayed as a vehicle of resistance. This book argues
that, because ordinary Indians are not positively biased in favor
of customary law per se, a heterogeneity of legal practices can be
observed on a daily basis, which consequently undermines the
commonly held view of customary law as a "counter-hegemonic
strategy", even if, on other socio-geographical levels, this
thinking in terms of resistance holds true. Based on qualitative
research, the work analyzes how internal conflicts among indigenous
inhabitants of the Ecuadorian highlands are being settled in a
situation of formal legal pluralism, and what can be learned from
this in terms of Indian-state relationships. It is shown that, on a
local level, the phenomenological dimension of legal pluralism can
be termed "interlegality." On a macro level, ontological
assumptions underscore that legal pluralism is still seen as a
dichotomy between customary and national law. Multidisciplinary in
nature, the book will be of interest to academics and researchers
working in the areas of Legal Pluralism, Cultural Anthropology and
Latin American Studies.
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Literature of the Crusades (Paperback)
Simon Thomas Parsons, Linda Paterson; Contributions by Ruth Harvey, Simon Thomas Parsons, Simon John, …
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R782
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An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the
crusades. The interrelation of so-called "literary" and
"historical" sources of the crusades, and the fluidity of these
categorisations, are the central concerns of the essays collected
here. They demonstrate what the study of literary texts can do for
our historical understanding of the crusading movement, challenging
earlier historiographical assumptions about well-known poems and
songs, and introducing hitherto understudied manuscript sources
which elucidate a rich contemporary compositional culture regarding
the matter of crusade. The volume discusses a wide array of
European textual responses to the medieval crusading movement, from
the Plantagenet and Catalan courts to the Italy of Charles of
Anjou, Cyprus, and the Holy Land. Meanwhile, the topics considered
include the connexions between poetry and history in the Latin
First Crusade texts; the historical, codicological and literary
background to Richard the Lionheart's famous song of captivity;
crusade references in the troubadour Cerverí of Girona; literary
culture surrounding Charles of Anjou's expeditions; the use of the
Mélusine legend to strengthen the Lusignans' claim to Cyprus; and
the influence of aristocratic selection criteria in manuscript
traditions of Old French crusade songs. These diverse approaches
are unified in their examination of crusading texts as cultural
artefacts ripe for comparison across linguistic and thematic
divides.
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Literature of the Crusades (Hardcover)
Simon Thomas Parsons, Linda Paterson; Contributions by Ruth Harvey, Simon Thomas Parsons, Simon John, …
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An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the
crusades. The interrelation of so-called "literary" and
"historical" sources of the crusades, and the fluidity of these
categorisations, are the central concerns of the essays collected
here. They demonstrate what the study of literary texts can do for
our historical understanding of the crusading movement, challenging
earlier historiographical assumptions about well-known poems and
songs, and introducing hitherto understudied manuscript sources
which elucidate a rich contemporary compositional culture regarding
the matter of crusade. The volume discusses a wide array of
European textual responses to the medieval crusading movement, from
the Plantagenet and Catalan courts to the Italy of Charles of
Anjou, Cyprus, and the Holy Land. Meanwhile, the topics considered
include the connexions between poetry and history in the Latin
First Crusade texts; the historical, codicological and literary
background to Richard the Lionheart's famous song of captivity;
crusade references in the troubadour Cerveri of Girona; literary
culture surrounding Charles of Anjou's expeditions; the use of the
Melusine legend to strengthen the Lusignans' claim to Cyprus; and
the influence of aristocratic selection criteria in manuscript
traditions of Old French crusade songs. These diverse approaches
are unified in their examination of crusading texts as cultural
artefacts ripe for comparisonacross linguistic and thematic
divides. SIMON THOMAS PARSONS teaches Medieval History at Royal
Holloway, University of London and King's College London; LINDA
PATERSON is Professor Emerita at Warwick University. Contributors:
Luca Barbieri, Miriam Cabre, Jean Dunbabin, Ruth Harvey, Simon
John, Charmaine Lee, Helen J. Nicholson, Simon Parsons, Anna
Radaelli, Stephen Spencer, Carol Sweetenham.
The Oxford Handbook of Orthopaedics and Trauma offers junior
doctors, medical students, and all those with an interest in the
field the practical and up-to-date information needed for clinical
practice. It presents the essentials of orthopaedics and trauma in
a concise and user-friendly style for use with patients, in the
operating room, and in tutorials. As well as covering the basic
principles and conditions of both adult and paediatric orthopaedics
and trauma, it also contains a comprehensive overview of anatomy
and surgery. Helpful illustrations and diagrams guide the reader,
aiding the understanding of movements and anatomical relationships,
which are of particular importance in establishing a diagnosis.
Information is extensively referenced with further reading
materials, providing a structured basis in for all levels of
training. Emergency topics are highlighted for quick access and the
appendix provides information on common drugs in orthopaedics and
trauma, as well as fracture diagrams. The book is clearly laid out,
and written in an easily readable note-based style. Blank pages are
included for the reader, so that notes, observations, and local
protocols can be included, thereby individualising the Handbook.
Written by trainees and qualified surgeons, the Oxford Handbook of
Orthopaedics and Trauma is an accessible and informative tool for
all junior doctors and students in the field.
New insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the
history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth
centuries. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal demonstrates
the Society's continued engagement with historical and
interdisciplinary research on the early to the central Middle Ages,
focusing on the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Normanworlds - and beyond. It
includes an investigation of equestrian symbolism in Lombard
southern Italy; an inquiry into documentary production in Northern
France; and a new look at Anglo-Saxon servitude. Further chapters
offer an exploration of Norman ducal estates through GIS mapping; a
study of Winchester cathedral priory through the lens of the Codex
Wintoniensis; an examination of royal political strategy during the
interregnum crisis of King Stephen; and a prosopographical analysis
of Robert Curthose's crusade curiales. The first critical edition
and translation of the Carmen Ceccanense - an overlooked source for
German imperial history - will be widely welcomed. A new look at
the Domesday Book, with a comprehensive survey of previous
scholarship, completes the volume. Contributors: Stephen Baxter,
Paul Bertrand, Stephen D. Church, Alexander Dymond, Jennie M.
England,Thomas Foerster, S. Jay Lemanski, Simon Thomas Parsons,
Chiara Provesi.
Within the Latin American context, legal pluralism is often
depicted as a dichotomy between customary law and national law. In
addition, the use of customary law alongside national law is
frequently portrayed as a vehicle of resistance. This book argues
that, because ordinary Indians are not positively biased in favor
of customary law per se, a heterogeneity of legal practices can be
observed on a daily basis, which consequently undermines the
commonly held view of customary law as a "counter-hegemonic
strategy", even if, on other socio-geographical levels, this
thinking in terms of resistance holds true. Based on qualitative
research, the work analyzes how internal conflicts among indigenous
inhabitants of the Ecuadorian highlands are being settled in a
situation of formal legal pluralism, and what can be learned from
this in terms of Indian-state relationships. It is shown that, on a
local level, the phenomenological dimension of legal pluralism can
be termed "interlegality." On a macro level, ontological
assumptions underscore that legal pluralism is still seen as a
dichotomy between customary and national law. Multidisciplinary in
nature, the book will be of interest to academics and researchers
working in the areas of Legal Pluralism, Cultural Anthropology and
Latin American Studies.
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