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A fascinating account of Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy - JFK's forgotten sister and heir to the Chatsworth estate. Vivacious and wonderfully charismatic, Kick travelled over to England in 1938 and married Billy, heir to the Duke of Devonshire and Chatsworth, a scandal for the Kennedy family due to religious differences. Her tragic death following WWII was buried by the Kennedy's and her name since was not to mentioned. Paula Byrne explores the extra...

Encouraged to be “winners” from a young age, Rose and Joe Kennedy’s children were the embodiment of ambitious, wholesome Americanism. Yet even within this ebullient group of overachievers, the fourth Kennedy child, the irrepressible Kathleen, stood out. Lively, charismatic, extremely clever, and blessed with graceful athleticism and a sunny disposition, the alluring socialite—fondly known as “Kick”—was a firecracker who effortlessly made frien...

Encouraged to be “winners” from a young age, Rose and Joe Kennedy’s children were the embodiment of ambitious, wholesome Americanism. Yet even within this ebullient group of overachievers, the fourth Kennedy child, the irrepressible Kathleen, stood out. Lively, charismatic, extremely clever, and blessed with graceful athleticism and a sunny disposition, the alluring socialite—fondly known as “Kick”—was a firecracker who effortlessly made frien...

Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this updated edition of Paula Byrne's debut book includes new material that explores the history of Austen stage adaptations, why her books work so well on screen, and what that reveals about one of the world's most beloved authors.Originally published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2003 as Jane Austen and the Theatre, Paula Byrne's first book was never made widely available in the US and is out of print today. An e...

Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. The chronicle of a household, a family, and a journey of religious faith—an elegy for a vanishing world—Waugh's masterwork was a tribute and testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamorous, eccentric, and fascinating as their fictional Brideshead counterparts, their story just as compelling, ...

Looks at the life of Dido Belle, which inspired the film "Belle". She was an 18th century aristocrat who was born to a captured slave mother and Royal Navy captain father, and adopted and raised by one of the most powerful men of the day, Lord Mansfield. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes*

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This compelling and richly researched book presents a fascinating portrait ofMary Robinson--darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful menin England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author.

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This book looks at how the practice of law developed in early New South Wales.

This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries among property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: What did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term "offense"? She illuminates the values and beliefs of the...