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This new edition with facing-page modern English translation collects together the Old English prologues and epilogues to literary works associated with King Alfred.

In 1936, Cristobal Balenciaga opened a fashion house in Paris, after fleeing the Spanish civil war, within a couple of seasons he had raised fashion to the level of art.Christian Dior called Balenciaga 'the master of us all', while Coco Chanel claimed that he alone was 'a couturier in the truest sense of the word... the others are simply fashion designers'.In the Fifties he revolutionized women's silhouette, experimenting with the semi-fitted ...

After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture rebalances our understanding of family life in the Anglo-Saxon era by reconstructing the lives of medieval children and adolescents through their literary representation.

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Vogue on Cristobal Balenciaga, by Susan Irvine, examines Balenciaga's influence on fashion from the 1930s through to the 1960s. Known as the 'couturier's couturier' he revolutionised women's silhouette in the Fifties experimenting with the semi-fitted shape, the sack dress, the cocoon and the baby-doll. His designs were famously easy to wear, with one diplomat's wife quipping that she could play gold in her Balenciaga gown. Always something of...

Following the success of Susan Irvine's books, 'Rose Gardens of Australia' and 'The Garden at Forest Hall', her readers will be happy to know that 'Garden of a Thousand Roses' was the book that started it all, and it is now back in print in a new, improved edition.

This volume offers a new edition of the E-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, commonly known as the Peterborough Chronicle. The E-text is of enormous importance in Chronicle studies: in its early part it is the best representative of the Northern Recension of the Chronicle, in continuing up to the second half of the twelfth century, its span is by far the longest of all the versions. Even more than other verions of the Chronicle, it reflects tr...

The best fragrant roses for your garden, chosen by Australia's rose expert, Susan Irvine. This full colour guide contains: Clear descriptions of the best fragrant roses, Beautiful colour photographs of every variety, so you can see how the plants you buy in the nursery will turn out, Australia-wide cultivation notes so you can pick the best fragrant roses for your own garden, no matter where you are in Australia