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A feminist retelling of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda from the point-of-view of its fiery and fabulous heroine

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The story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.

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The story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.

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Sexual scandal, decadent royalty and heartless hypocrisy in Edwardian England.

This novel is GWENDOLENs passionate later-life letter to a handsome man who caught her eye at the gambling tables-the man she did not marry-and reveals what happened across the brutal and transformative years of her early twenties, after she married wealthy aristocrat Grandcourt, despite her discovery of an alarming secret about his past. GWENDOLEN is also the heroine of George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda (and is writing to Deronda).

Seduction, madness, addiction, suicide - this was the bohemian world of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks, two pivotal figures in the cultural life of Paris at the turn of the century.

A revealing insight into the remarkable life of the First World War heroine who saved hundreds of lives, told by one of Britain's most acclaimed writers.

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This revealing insight into the remarkable life of the WWI heroine who sheltered British and French soldiers, helping them to escape over the Belgian border, is reissued to coincide with the centenary of Cavell's execution.

Classic account of the life of an extraordinary woman and an undervalued artist.

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B format edition of this hardback bestseller, detailing the relationship between Violet Trefusis, lover of Vita Sackville-West, and her mother Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII. An enthralling, eventful story which lays bare the obsessions, hypocrisies and betrayals in the upper echelons of Edwardian society. "Souhami has a marvellous touch with words. Her narrative sparkles." "Sunday Telegraph".

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Gertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907, in Paris. From that day on they were together, until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. This title presents story of their remarkable life together, of the paths that led them to each other, and of Alice's years of widowhood after Gertrude had died.

This "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year tells the story of Violet Trefusis, lover of Vita Sackville-West, and her mother Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles.