Book Description
The heart-breaking and compelling new book set in a Victorian workhouse from the author of the The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
Author : Cathy Sharp
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008286698
The heart-breaking and compelling new book set in a Victorian workhouse from the author of the The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
Author : Cathy Sharp
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN :
"When Lucy and her brother, Joshua, are orphaned, it falls to Joshua to provide for them both, but he is barely into his teens and in his naivety, falls prey to bad influences and drink. Lucy is desperate to avoid the workhouse, but when Joshua loses their meagre savings they are thrown out onto the street and, in dire poverty, it isn't long before Lucy finds herself at its gates - almost a fate worse than death. Inside the workhouse, Lucy meets with unkindness and cruelty and she knows she must dig deep within herself if she is to survive, let alone thrive. What Lucy needs is a friend and she is surprised to find one in the most unlikely place ..."--Back cover.
Author : Cathy Sharp
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008118450
Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in this gritty drama
Author : John Waller
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1840464704
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.
Author : Cathy Sharp
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008363986
A heartbreaking story of one child’s courage, from the bestselling author of The Orphan’s of Halfpenny Street.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2020-10-14
Category :
ISBN :
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473374081
This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.
Author : Cathy Sharp
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008211612
Heartache and hardship in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street
Author : Mary Higgs
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Lodging-houses
ISBN :