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Free Download Candida Ann Lacey, "Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 041560639X, 0415256887 | EPUB | pages: 494 | 0.6 mb
First published in 1987. Reprints material from the 1850’s and 1860’s, a period which marked a turning point in the history of British Feminism. At the centre of this was Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, whose pioneering schemes to improve the status of women made these years some of the richest in debate and reform

Free Download Leigh Hunt, David Jesson-Dibley, "Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings"
English | 2003 | pages: 198 | ISBN: 0415969514 | EPUB | 2,6 mb
Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was a prolific, versatile and engaging writer. He outlived many of the poets and essayists of his generation whose reputations overshadowed his, but Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats all owed a debt to his advocacy, as did Tennyson and Browning. A poet of charm and technical skill, and an able translator and playwright, Leigh Hunt excelled as an essayist, literary critic and letter writer. His concern was always, in the words of his son, to ‘open more widely the door of the library’, to share his literary enthusiasms and extend his readers’ tastes. This anthology draws on the full range of Hunt’s poetry and prose, revealing a writer committed to the humane and civilizing powers of literature and friendship.

Free Download Anne Edwards, "Vivien Leigh: A Biography"
English | 2013 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 158979785X | EPUB | 6,7 mb
This is the story of the actress who became a Hollywood legend by winning the coveted role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, and whose circle included both theatrical and political celebrities, from Winston Churchill to Noel Coward, John Gielgud, and Marlon Brando. But behind the dazzling exterior lay the sinister shadow of another Vivien Leigh-a shadow which pursued her throughout her aristocratic upbringing, her frustrating first marriage, her tempestuous romance with Laurence Olivier, and her meteoric rise to stardom. As The New York Times wrote of the hardcover edition, "To read her story is to be inspired with pity and terror."