epub |eng | 2005-04-19 | Author:Adrian Greaves, Brian Best [Adrian Greaves, Brian Best]

15th November 1878 Greytown, Natal Letter to Mama We were kept waiting at Pietermaritzburg for transport until last Thursday and in much discomfort because everything was packed up and we ...

epub |eng | 2024-06-12 | Author:LeAnne McKinley [McKinley, LeAnne]

It was not until the meal was completed, and the ladies had sojourned quietly to the parlour, that Mary said to me, “You will forgive me, Jane, if I do ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-25 | Author:LeAnne McKinley [McKinley, LeAnne]

CHAPTER XI The servants arrived to light the chandelier in the gallery. Diana and I moved with one accord, slipping from the centre of the room while a young man ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-25 | Author:LeAnne McKinley [McKinley, LeAnne]

CHAPTER XI The servants arrived to light the chandelier in the gallery. Diana and I moved with one accord, slipping from the centre of the room while a young man ...

epub |eng | 2024-06-12 | Author:LeAnne McKinley [McKinley, LeAnne]

X The task of consoling my weeping cousin was not prolonged, for Mary had soon mastered her emotion and gone to her bed, I hoped, to rest. But I feared ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-19 | Author:James W Bancroft

Unfortunately, the forebodings of Major Evans at Lucknow came to reality as his wife was killed when an enemy round shot smashed into a masonry wall and a mass of ...

epub |eng | 2023-08-07 | Author:Charles River Editors

epub |eng | 2021-10-14 | Author:Angus Konstam & Paul Wright

epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Richard Brown

Fig. 21. Boxing Kangaroo, 1895 (BFI National Archive). Fig. 22. Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm, 1895 (BFI National Archive). Fig. 23. Dancing Dogs, 1895 (BFI National Archive). As ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-15 | Author:Francesca Wade

XIII Wednesday 24th June Was Haydon insane when he killed himself? He is often referred to by modern writers, perhaps too positively, as a manic depressive. Elizabeth Barrett was certain ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-19 | Author:Michelle Higgs

Doctor John Conolly. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank. (Wellcome Collection. CC BY) In his article on seclusion, Leslie Topp quotes John Conolly’s view that the great advantage of a padded ...

epub |eng | 2023-01-02 | Author:Rebecca Harrison [Harrison, Rebecca]

Chapter Eleven There is a moment like a quaver stretching into a semibreve, a moment that makes me wonder if I have spoken at all. His eyes widen, and I ...

epub |eng | 2023-03-18 | Author:Grantlee Kieza

THE HAWKESBURY AND NEPEAN experienced a great flood at the end of May 1816, wiping out the wheat crops and threatening food shortages. Macquarie turned his attention to this new ...

epub |eng | 2021-07-13 | Author:Rudrangshu Mukherjee [Mukherjee, Rudrangshu]

Such a people’s resistance would guarantee that the British would ‘be unable to do anything, though they may amount to lakhs of men.’ Everybody should fight the British and this ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-21 | Author:Michael Turner [Turner, Michael]

9 STONEWALL JACKSON’S POSTWAR LONGEVITY Jackson’s British reputation remained positive during the postwar period. There was discussion of his British ties. For his religious fervor, military talents, and successes in ...