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  1. A lady of quality
    being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr Isaac Bickerstaff but not presented to the World of Fashion through the pages of The Tatler, and now for the first time written down
    Autor*in: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Hesperus Press Limited, London, England

    A dark and thrilling novel from the author of The Secret Garden sees a strong-willed heroine defy conformity, lunging head first into a world filled with violence, manipulation, passion, and murderSet in late 17th-century England, amid the ribbons... mehr

    Standort:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signatur:
    Online-Ressource
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    A dark and thrilling novel from the author of The Secret Garden sees a strong-willed heroine defy conformity, lunging head first into a world filled with violence, manipulation, passion, and murderSet in late 17th-century England, amid the ribbons and romance of courtship, this gothic tale tackles violence and manipulation, blackmail, and even murder. When Clorinda is born, the odds seem stacked against her. First and foremost, she is a girl like all her sisters before her and her father wants only a son. Furthermore, her mother dies in childbirth, and her father, considering all his daughters

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781780943671
    Schlagworte: Nobility; Nobility
    Umfang: Online-Ressource (258 pages)
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    "A Lady of Quality first published, 1896"--T.p. verso

    ""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication ""; ""Contents""; ""The Twenty-Fourth Day of November 1690""; ""In Which Sir Jeoffry Encounters His Offspring""; ""Wherein Sir Jeoffry�s Boon Companions Drink a Toast""; ""Lord Twemlow�s Chaplain Visits His Patron�s Kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda Shines on Her Birthday Night""; ""�Not I,� said she. �There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out.�""; ""Relating How Mistress Anne Discovered a Miniature""; ""�Twas the Face of Sir John Oxon the Moon Shone Upon""

    ""Two Meet in the Deserted Rose Garden, and the Old Earl of Dunstanwolde Is Made a Happy Man""""�I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul � myself�""; ""�Yes � I have marked him�""; ""Wherein a Noble Life Comes to an End""; ""Which Treats of the Obsequies of My Lord of Dunstanwolde, of His Lady�s Widowhood, and of Her Return to Town""; ""Wherein a Deadly War Begins""; ""Containing the History of the Breaking of the Horse Devil, and Relates the Returning of His Grace of Osmonde From France""; ""In Which Sir John Oxon Finds Again a Trophy He Had Lost""

    ""Dealing With That Which Was Done in the Panelled Parlour""""Wherein His Grace of Osmonde�s Courier Arrives From France""; ""My Lady Dunstanwolde Sits Late Alone and Writes""; ""A Piteous Story Is Told, and the Old Cellars Walled In""; ""A Noble Marriage""; ""An Heir Is Born""; ""Mother Anne""; ""�In One who will do justice, and demands that it shall be done to each thing He has made, by each who bears His image�""; ""The Doves Sat Upon the Window Ledge and Lowly Cooed and Cooed""; ""Biographical Note""; ""About the Publisher ""; ""Selected Titles from Hesperus Press ""