Gentleman Jack - Anne Lister - and Eliza Raine are 13-year-olds at boarding school. Both alienated from the other wealthy Yorkshire girls, they slept in the same bed in a small, unheated attic room and confided about schoolwork, families and personal problems, so their friendship grew deep and serious. Each had what the other craved: Anne, with no money, saw that Eliza could be independent. Lonely Eliza envied Anne's well-respected, stable family. And when Anne put her arm around Eliza, the beautiful, exotic Indian girl responded.

Gentleman Jack - Anne Lister - and Eliza Raine are 13-year-olds at boarding school. Sharing a bed in a cold attic, they pledge undying love, marry each other secretly and promise to live together when they grow up. But nothing works out as planned. Real letters and journals reveal two Georgian women whose lives changed beyond belief.

Between 1918 and 1928 the biography of William Butler Yeats ran parallel with a young Catholic "country wench", Lily O'Neill. murdered outside Dublin in June 1925. On the same date Yeats suddenly became depressed and ill. It was two days before his 'Divorce Bill' speech as a Senator opposing Catholic divorce, in favour of civil divorce. Did he want to divorce his English wife to marry a Catholic woman, and to make their son legitimate?

A re-analysis of W. B. Yeats's most difficult poetry, showing how it was edited by his wife to remove all traces of his lover, Lily O'Neill, and his first son. This book clearly shows that he was not writing about his wife, George, or about Maud Gnne MacBride,or Iseult Gonne Stuart.

"I belly-crawled across the floor after a bomb exploded outside our garden in Yemen...I had tea with Barbara Bush in the Yellow Room of the White House...I drove blindly into the midst of an anti-American riot in Venezuela...I joined in a folk dance led by Queen Margrethe in Denmark and I ate dinner with a prime minister in Israel." Patricia Hughes gives us a candid, tough-minded and fun look at living abroad at the behest of our government. She expresses the frustrations and concerns of a mother and wife while accepting with good humor that the Foreign Service acquires "two for the price of one." She reminds us of a dedicated group of patriots that are often forgotten--the diplomats.

This book presents a remarkable range of experience, emotions, people and places that influenced her and her family during 35 years of government service. From terrorism and a civil war to lunch in a palace; from demonstrations and groupies, presidents and princesses to life-long friends--these are "The Royals and The Roaches."