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ISBN: 9781448137077 1448137071 9780701187552 0701187557 9780701187569 0701187565 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus,
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"Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastic and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as modern and as unconventional as anything in her fiction. Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne in 1940, her story spans the latter half of the twentieth century. After escaping an oppressive childhood and a difficult early marriage, the success of her first novels enable the freedoms of travel -- journeying across America in a Greyhound bus, and then on to Tokyo, where she lived for three transformative years -- before settling in London to write her last, great novels, amid the joys of late motherhood and prestigious teaching posts abroad. By the time of her tragic and untimely death at the age of fifty-one, she was firmly established as an iconoclastic writer whose fearlessly original work had reinvigorated the literary landscape and inspired a new generation."--
Authors, English --- Authors, English. --- Carter, Angela, --- 1900-1999.
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ISBN: 0190626844 0190626852 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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ISBN: 9780190626846 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,
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Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as vigorously modern and unconventional as anything in her fiction. This is the story of how Angela Carter invented herself - as a new kind of woman and a new kind of writer - and how she came to write such seductive and distinctive masterworks as The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus, and Wise Children. Because its subject so powerfully embodied the spirit of the times, the book also provides a fresh perspective on Britain's social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. It examines such topics as the 1960s counterculture, the social and imaginative conditions of the nuclear age, and the advent of second wave feminism. Author Edmund Gordon has followed in Angela Carter's footsteps - travelling to the places she lived in Britain, Japan, and the USA - to uncover a life rich in adventure and incident. With unrestricted access to her manuscripts, letters, and journals, and informed by interviews with Carter's friends and family, Gordon offers an unrivalled portrait of one of the twentieth century's most dazzlingly original writers. This sharply written narrative will be the definitive biography for years to come.
ISBN: 0582484030 0582484022 9780582484030 Year: 1976 Publisher: London: Longman,
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This is the first serious comprehensive study of the gentry from the Norman Conquest to the present day. It presents a rounded picture of a social group who once formed the political and administrative backbone of England. In their heyday the gentry owned over half of all the country's land. From it they derived enormous power and social prestige. Ownership of land brought them not only control of agriculture (when farming was by far the country's largest economic activity), but also involvement in the development of coalmining, iron-working and other industrial activities, and in the development of transport. Professor Mingay shows how they came to acquire this power ; how they used it ; and how it eventually passed from them. He also looks at their social origins, their education, and their distinctive life-style ; and also pays particular attention to their role as magistrates and county administrators, including the controversial question of the part played in the overthrow of absolute monarchy in the Great Rebellion.
Social stratification --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Great Britain --- Gentry --- Nobility --- History --- Gentry - Great Britain - History --- Nobility - Great Britain - History --- Gentry - Great Britain
ISBN: 0415033942 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Routledge
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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- Country life --- History
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ISBN: 0434467502 Year: 1977 Publisher: London : William Heinemann,
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Rural population --- -Social classes --- -Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural --- History --- -England --- Rural conditions. --- -History --- Social classes --- Class distinction --- England --- Angleterre --- Conditions rurales --- 19e siecle
ISBN: 0415034086 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Routledge
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ISBN: 0582491320 Year: 1994 Publisher: London : Longman,
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Land tenure --- History --- England --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- To 1500
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Year: 1959 Publisher: Philadelphia The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
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Year: 1968 Publisher: London: MacMillan,
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