LIBROS DEL AUTOR: anthea ingham

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  • The Web of Spinsterhood
    Anthea Ingham
    Whatever happened to spinsters? From our 21st century viewpoint they can seem no more than a trace of old lavender water, but Ingham is determined to root them out and show what they can teach us about life today. Eschewing the familiar medium of biography, she chooses to look at single women through the spectrum of fiction. Starting with mythological women from the ancient wor...
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  • Dreams of Impossible Pangs
    Anthea Ingham
    Algernon Charles Swinburne, scandalous poet of the mid 1860s whose verses riveted and appalled London, recalls his extraordinary life from the safety of his captivity in Putney under the guardianship of the sinister lawyer and Pre-Raphaelite groupie, Theodore Watts Dunton. His journals find their way into the hands of the critic Edmund Gosse who provides his own surprising pers...
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  • Digby Sherwood
    Anthea Ingham
    It is 1987 and Digby Sherwood, successful headmaster of Mowberry School has problems: there is his entirely unsuitable, second wife Elizabeth who is half his age; there are difficult members of staff: the elderly eccentric Classics master Harold Avenmore, for instance, has passed his sell-by date and must be got rid of, to say nothing of precocious adolescent boys to be dealt w...
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    18,47 €