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  Modest

  Ellen Brammar

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  'A woman. On the line in Gallery Two of all places. I never thought I'd see the day. This is progress, my dear.'
  It's 1874, and Elizabeth Thompson stuns the artistic establishment with her painting The Roll Call. Five years later, she falls two votes short of becoming the first woman elected to the Royal Academy.
  In between, she shoulders the hopes and dreams of female artists across the country, while fighting for her place at a table full of top hats, neckties and mutton chop beards.
  A thrilling collision of music hall, cabaret and drag king swagger, Modest tells the true story of a pioneering megastar of the Victorian art scene. Written by Ellen Brammar and with music by Rachel Barnes, it was first produced in 2023 by Middle Child in collaboration with Milk Presents at Hull Truck Theatre before touring.

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  Ancient Greek Tragedies Classic...

  Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus

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  This collection presents the works of the three fathers of ancient Greek tragedies: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.The reader of this collection will be able to comprehend how the plots and conflicts populating classical tragedy developed.The principle theme of Aeschylus' tragedies is the idea of fate being omnipotent and the futility in struggling against it.The tragedies of Sophocles reflect the era of the Greeks' victorious war against the Persians, which opened up commercial prosperity through trade.Euripides propels his dramas by incorporating conflicts from within the human psyche.Contents:Euripides: MedeaSophocles: AntigoneAeschylus: The OresteiaAgamemnonEumenidesThe Choephori

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  The Poetry of Radclyffe Hall -...

  Radclyffe Hall

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  Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall was born on August 12th, 1880 to wealthy parents who separated while she was still an infant.  Her parents thereafter paid little attention to her. Hall was educated privately, and then at King’s College London. Later she travelled to Europe, settling in Dresden, Germany.  With the death of her paternal grandfather she inherited a large estate and was then able to live as she pleased. 
  In Germany, Hall met Mabel Batten and fell in love despite the twenty-three year age difference. Batten gave Hall the nickname ‘John’ by which she was henceforward known in every circumstance throughout her life except in her work as an author. 
  In 1915, Hall met and, in 1917 moved in with sculptor Una Troubridge, with whom she would remain for the rest of her life. 
  Hall wrote poetry all throughout her twenties and thirties. She had published Dedicated to Arthur Sullivan as early as 1894, and five further volumes of collected works were released before she stopped writing poetry and published her first novel, The Forge, in 1924. 
  That same year also saw publication of The Unlit Lamp, the first work for which Hall was known as simply Radclyffe Hall. 
  The Well of Loneliness, the most important novel of Hall’s career, was published in 1928 to immediate sensation and controversy. It is Hall’s most direct artistic expression of her own personal sexual orientation. 
  After the controversy of The Well of Loneliness, Hall would publish only two more novels and a collection of short stories. 
  After years spent travelling in Italy and France and a series of long lasting affairs with other women (of which Troubridge was apparently aware), Hall retired with Troubridge to Rye, in East Sussex. Here, suffering from tuberculosis, she also underwent eye surgery and thereafter had difficulty reading and writing. 
  On October 7, 1943, Radclyffe Hall died from colon cancer at the age of sixty-three. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London. 
  This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  The Golden Cub

  Rosemarie Gilchrist

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  The Golden Cub is an epic family adventure set in the 1800's  and based on a true story. An Irish Landowners son travels to South Africa with his wife and young child, only to disappear without trace. Reports of a white child living with a remote Tribe reach the family and they send his younger brother to locate and recover the young boy. The Brother's girlfriend, from a poor family, runs away with him to Africa and helps in his daunting search. Colorful characters, grand adventures and the vast African landscape await, in this emotional and brilliantly narrated novel. Enjoy Love, drama and the triumph of the Human spirit in this memorable journey through the African wilds and all it's fascinating  inhabitants.

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  Where Did All The Flowers Come...

  Gordon MacLeod

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  Based on the island of Arran.  
  Sister Rhona, Vicky, and Mary meet to mark the occasion of their mother's burial a year to the day following her funeral. 
  Puzzled by the many flowers left on their mother's grave, they probe the reasons for this and who is responsible. Hatching a plan to catch the donor, the answer leads to some unexpected revelations that their mother did not want to share with her daughters.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - World War I -...

  Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, E W...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - World War I - An Introduction 
  02 - The Volunteer by Herbert Asquith 
  03 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 
  04 - 1914 by Rupert Brooke 
  05 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 
  06 - Antwerp by Ford Maddox Ford 
  07 - Men of Verdun by Lawrence Binyon 
  08 - Wooden Crosses by E W Hornung 
  09 - Hardness of Heart by Edward Shillito 
  10 - In War by Isaac Rosenberg 
  11 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 
  12 - The Illusion of War by Richard Le Gallienne 
  13 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge

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