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Waiting for the party;: The life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924 by Ann Thwaite (1974-05-03)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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Waiting for the party;: The life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924 by Ann Thwaite (1974-08-01)
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Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928
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Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse by Ann Thwaite (2002-10-07)
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The Ashton Affair (Andre Deutsch Children's Books)
(When Piers Morely moves to Ashton Hall, Jan is delighted....)
When Piers Morely moves to Ashton Hall, Jan is delighted. His daughter Claire is just her age, and soon they feel as though they have known each other for years. But before long not everything looks so rosy. Jan starts to worry that her mother is getting too friendly with Claire's father.
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(Waiting for the Party ) Author: Ann Thwaite Sep-1994
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Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse
(This is a vivid reassessment of the life of Philip Henry ...)
This is a vivid reassessment of the life of Philip Henry Gosse, the renowned Victorian naturalist, author, illustrator and Christian fundamentalist, who as both friend and antagonist of Charles Darwin, was at the very heart of the Victorian conflict between science and religion. The author of 40 books, Philip Henry Gosse also perfected and popularized the aquarium and travelled widely before settling in Devon as a self-trained entomologist, botanist, lepidopterist, ornithologist and above all, marine biologist. In a reassessment of the extraordinary life of the man described by Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard palaeontologist, as the "David Attenborough of his day", Ann Thwaite also addresses the key question of why he has been perceived as a cruel and tyrannical father - a notion generally attributed to "Father and Son", the classic memoir by his son Edmund. But Edmund himself was shocked and surprised by such reactions to his work. The father he remembered - the man deemed by the Royal Society to have done more than any before to popularize the study of natural history in England - was at odds with this portrait he seemed to have delivered to the public domain.
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Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape
(The life of Edmund Gosse was one of continuous contradict...)
The life of Edmund Gosse was one of continuous contradiction. As he recalled in "Father and Son", he was a precocious only child brought up by his extraordinary father, whose thinking and conduct were dominated equally by the Bible and the "Actinologica Britannica", a study of marine life. Later, with inexplicable poise, he was simultaneously the intimate of Swinbourne and a sunday school superintendant, and public opinion divided in calling him the most discerning critic in England and a 'literary charlatan' with a 'genius for inaccuracy'. Gosse's rise to pre-eminence was rapid, and at his death he was acknowledged as the friend of Tennyson and Hans Christian Anderson, the confidant of Browning, R.L. Stevenson, Thomas Hardy and Henry James, and the champion of Ibsen, Gide and Yeats. In her biography, Ann Thwaite has painstakingly separated the facts from prejudice and rumour to reveal a picture of Edmund Gosse which can at last be called true to life. She refuses to ignore his many contradictions, but shows how they reflect the complexity of his singular genius.
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A. A. Milne: His Life
(A.A. Milne is one of the most successful English writers ...)
A.A. Milne is one of the most successful English writers ever. His heart-warming creations-Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet-have become some of the best-loved children's characters of all time, and readers the world over are familiar with the stories from the Hundred Acre Wood. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma. Although in many ways his behaviour was that of a typical golf-playing, pipe-smoking Englishman, Milne refused to be typecast, and his publishers despaired when he turned from writing popular columns for Punch to writing detective stories. They complained again when the detective writer presented them with a set of children's verse, but when When We Were Very Young became one of the best-selling books of all time, Milne's credibility as one of the world's favorite authors was sealed. In this biography of Milne, Ann Thwaite reveals the man himself, in all his complexity. As W. A. Darlington put it in 1921, commenting on Milne's highly popular plays, 'Mr Milne is obviously at heart (like all humorists) a serious person, with things to say.' He had strong political feelings, and was a pacifist even before his experiences on the Somme in 1916. There was always something darker and more tangled under 'the bright glitter of surfaces'. At his father's school, Milne was taught by the young H. G. Wells, who remained a lifelong friend; later, J. M. Barrie called him 'my Mr Milne' and was 'uncommon proud of him'; later still, P. G. Wodehouse became one of his greatest admirers, and a friend - but was then deeply hurt by Milne's strong reaction to the notorious wartime broadcasts. Milne's personal relationships, including those with his wife and son, were not always easy. In A. A. Milne: His Life, Ann Thwaite has produced a vivid, sympathetic and entertaining portrait of both the man and his work, set in the context of his time, which stands as the definitive life of a writer whose work has earned some loathing (for its supposed 'whimsy') but much more devotion among readers of all ages, not only in English-speaking countries but all over the world.
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Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924 (Nonpareil Book)
(A moving biography of Burnett, author of The Secret Garde...)
A moving biography of Burnett, author of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess and one of the more famous literary figures of the Gilded Age.
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Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928 by Ann Thwaite (1984-06-03)
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- Piece of Parkin (A Piece of Parkin A true story from the autobiography of ...)
Ann Thwaite
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Associate of Arts Milne: His Life was the Whitbread of the Year, 1990. Glimpses of the Wonderful about the life of Edmund"s father, Philip Henry Gosse, was picked out by DJ Taylor in the Independent as one of the "Ten Best Biographies" ever. Frances Hodgson Burnett was originally published (1974) as Waiting for the Party and reissued in 2007 with the sub-title Beyond the Secret Garden.
Emily Tennyson, The Poet"s Wife (1996) was reissued by Faber Finds for the Tennyson bicentenary in 2009.
Born in London, Ann spent the war years in New Zealand, returning to complete her education at Queen Elizabeth"s, Barnet, and Street Hilda"s College, Oxford. She has lived in Tokyo, Benghazi and Nashville, Tennessee.
She is an Oxford Doctorate.Litt, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University (National Centre for Research into Children"s Literature) and has an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia.
Foreign forty years, Ann Thwaite wrote children"s books, including The Camelthorn Papers (1969), translated into Japanese and Greek, Tracks, a New Zealand story, and a much-loved picture book, Gilbert and the Birthday Cake.
January Mark included her story Feeding the Cats in the Oxford Book of Children"s Stories (1993). The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the Pooh, a scrapbook offshoot of her Milne biography, was published on both sides of the Atlantic in 1992. She edited (1968-1975) Allsorts, an annual collection that included new work for children by such writers as Michael Frayn, James Fenton, Penelope Lively and William Trevor.
My Oxford (1977) contained memories of their time there by writers including John Mortimer, Antonia Fraser, and Martin Amis.
Ann Thwaite"s most recent book is a history of her own family: Passageways, the story of a New Zealand family (2009), and much praised on both sides of the world.
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Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse
(This is a vivid reassessment of the life of Philip Henry ...)
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Waiting for the Party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924 (Nonpareil Book)
(A moving biography of Burnett, author of The Secret Garde...)
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Piece of Parkin
(A Piece of Parkin A true story from the autobiography of ...)
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Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape
(The life of Edmund Gosse was one of continuous contradict...)
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The Ashton Affair (Andre Deutsch Children's Books)
(When Piers Morely moves to Ashton Hall, Jan is delighted....)
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Waiting for the party;: The life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924 by Ann Thwaite (1974-05-03)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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A. A. Milne: His Life
(A.A. Milne is one of the most successful English writers ...)
- Waiting for the party;: The life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924 by Ann Thwaite (1974-08-01)
- Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928
- Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse by Ann Thwaite (2002-10-07)
- (Waiting for the Party ) Author: Ann Thwaite Sep-1994
- Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928 by Ann Thwaite (1984-06-03)
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Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse
