'The saddest story I ever wrote.' Mrs GaskellSylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire. The sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants: whalers returning from their...

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The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music, and Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive exhibits, overpriced merchandise, and queues, don't worry, these are...

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Download or read Legacy: The Acclaimed Novel of Elizabeth, England's Most Passionate Queen -- And the Three Men Who Loved Her in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with Legacy: The Acclaimed Novel of Elizabeth, England's Most Passionate Queen -- And the Three Men Who Loved Her.

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Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell, the four prodigiously gifted Bronte children, grew up in a world circumscribed by their father's dank, claustrophobic parsonage at Haworth in Yorkshire.  Here their lively imaginations fed upon each other's childhood fantasies.  They invented their own fictional world of...

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The much-loved tale read by generations of children, now annotated and with over one hundred stunning illustrations.Frances Hodgson Burnett was famous in her time for her adult novels and her forays into children's literature with Little Lord Fauntleroy and...

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As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest,' James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumored that his father,...

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Reveals the dark side of England's most celebrated monarchWhen people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the crusade to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. In reality Richard...

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