Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 1: The Romantic Years 1854-95
10 best books like Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 1: The Romantic Years 1854-95 (Ralph G. Martin): Queen Victoria, Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer, The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli, The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline, P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography, Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady, The Spencer Family, Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality, The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Disraeli: A Picture of the Victorian Age
| Author | Elizabeth Longford |
| ISBN | 0750940492 |
Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch in British history. In this concise biography, Lady Longford, long recognised as an authority on the subject, gives a full account of Queen Victoria?s life and provides her unique assessment of the monarch. Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 on the...
Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer
| Author | Ada Lovelace |
| ISBN | 0912647094 |
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Description: In part two of this dramatization of The Letters of Ada Lovelace, Georgina Ferry reveals the nature of the relationship between the young heiress, Ada Lovelace (Sally Hawkins) and the crusty mathematician, Charles Babbage...
| Author | Richard Aldous |
| ISBN | 0393065707 |
William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the nineteenth century. Their intense mutual hatred was both ideologically driven and deeply personal. Their vitriolic duels, carried out over decades, lend profound insight into the social and political currents...
| Author | Flora Fraser |
| ISBN | 0719566908 |
"There are two types of British queens," says Columbia University historian David Cannadine."Those who hold the position strictly as wife of the king, and those (few) who have ruled as sovereign in absence of a male heir." Queen Caroline, who briefly held title when King George IV was crowned in 1820...
P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography
| Author | Frances Donaldson |
| ISBN | 1853754242 |
Who has not come to know and love Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth, Ukridge and Psmith and the chorus of Wooster aunts? Their creator, Sir Pelham Greville Wodehouse, with nearly 100 tomes to his name, is one of the best-loved and famous writers of comedy in the English language. But what of the man himself?...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady
| Author | Sylvia Jukes Morris |
| ISBN | 0375757686 |
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously...
Tracing the history of the Spencers from their beginnings as medieval sheep farmers, through centuries of service to country and crown to their high public profile following the marriage of Diana Spencer to the Prince of Wales, Charles, Ninth Earl Spencer, has written a superb and engaging work of...
| Author | Gary Lachman |
| ISBN | 1585428639 |
Kurt Vonnegut called her "The Founding Mother of Occult in America." Pioneer, visionary or charlatan? Madame Helena Petrova Blavatsky has been hailed as an icon and scorned as a fraud. At last, there is a full, comprehensive biography on the woman who founded the Theosophical Society, wrote the most...
| Author | Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan |
| ISBN | 1933698004 |
The facts of Marie Antoinette's life are well documented. Daughter of the Empress of Austria; marriage to the prince of France; the ill-fated Affair of the Necklace, tales of excess and infidelity; her flight from Paris; her execution by guillotine. Until now the reality about this strong willed,...
| Author | André Maurois |
| ISBN | 1931313563 |
This was a fascinating read. It's a novelistic biography. No one volume could really do Disraeli justice. AM gives a vivid sense of Dizzy's romantic nature, idealistic mind and practical intelligence. I hated the lack of dates in the text. This made it difficult to get a real sense of Dizzy's development....
Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
| Author | Judith P. Zinsser |
| ISBN | 0143112686 |
The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mind
Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise...
| Author | Robert Lacey |
| ISBN | 0151556849 |
The world dreams of taking tea with her. She is the living embodiment of grandeur that was, and is, England. In this brilliantly researched book, Robert Lacey combines the sweep of history with the intimate nuance of individual lives to raise the curtain on the royal mystique. Here is the personal side...
| Author | Christopher Lee |
| ISBN | 0312321392 |
1603 was the year that Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudors, died. Her cousin, Robert Carey, immediately rode like a demon to Scotland to take the news to James VI. The cataclysmic time of the Stuarts had come and the son of Mary Queen of Scots left Edinburgh for London to claim his throne as James I of...
The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria
| Author | Joan Haslip |
| ISBN | 1842120980 |
Empress Elizabeth was considered the most beautiful woman in Europe. Joan Haslip shows her living life on her terms, ignoring the wishes of her husband, the needs of her children and the responsibilities of her position. Doing what she wanted did not make her happy and her maintenance and emotional...
Victoria: An Intimate Biography
| Author | Stanley Weintraub |
| ISBN | 0452269792 |
I didn't know a lot about Queen Victoria herself before going into this book, although I'm fairly familiar with the time during which she reigned, so this book was very informative, if nothing else. Sadly, though, at times it also felt plodding. I don't expect biographies to be action-packed or suspenseful,...
A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France
| Author | Emilie Carles |
| ISBN | 0140169652 |
I came upon this title from a reference in the book SYLVIA'S FARM. Am I ever glad I followed up. This is the story of a French peasant woman, born in 1900, who became a teacher. She wrested her education from nuns and in the direst of living circumstances, always going back to her father's farm to work on weekends....
Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist
| Author | Brooke Kroeger |
| ISBN | 0812925254 |
I sought out this biography of Nellie Bly because I had recently read Bly's Ten Days in a Mad-House and that left me curious to know more about her. According to author Brooke Kroeger's introduction, this is the first biography ever of Bly that was written for an adult audience. (There have been a number...
Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia
The beautiful Langhorne sisters lived at the pinnacle of society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War, Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora eventually made their way across two continents, leaving rich husbands, fame,...
The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters
| Author | David Grafton |
| ISBN | 0394584163 |
I have read in a few reviews that this was a gossipy book, but I didn't find it so. I learned recently that the author died just a year after the book was published, and that his friends found his origins a mystery: who was the real David Grafton? In many ways it helped me to read this book as his story as well,...
Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
| Author | Stacey Edgar |
| ISBN | 0312621736 |
Start small, dream big, change lives— how one woman harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves Seven years ago, Stacey Edgar had a $2,000 tax return and a deep desire to help provide economic security for women in need. She knew that of the 1.3 billion people living...
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family
| Author | Alexander Waugh |
| ISBN | 0385521502 |
If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it—and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went on to become...
| Author | Thomas B. Costain |
| ISBN | 1568493711 |
THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272. During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences...
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877
| Author | Walter A. McDougall |
| ISBN | 0060567511 |
"And then there came a day of fire!" From its shocking curtain-raiser—the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835—to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes...
Massacre at Montségur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
| Author | Zoé Oldenbourg |
| ISBN | 0880294779 |
In 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade - this time against a country of fellow Christians. The new enemy: Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one of the greatest princes in Christendom, premier baron of all the territories in southern France where the langue d'oc was spoken. Thus began the Albigensian...
