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Maria Bowring, the eldest child of John Bowring, well known Victorian polititian and statesman, chose to spend the last years of her life in a Catholic Convent in London as an annuitant. In this book, through her contacts with the Bellasis family, a very highly regarded Catholic convert family which included two priests and three nuns, and other well known people of the time such as Florence Nightingale, we get a picture of what her life might...

Based on the authentic diary of a young Englishman in 1859, and the journal of his wife to be, this story tells of the highs and lows of the year in which they get engaged, marry and have a child.

This book tells the details of family members who descended from the Woychik and Suchla families who originated in Silesia.

Mark Day was a mining engineer. He spent many years in charge of a tin mine in lower Burma. This is a fictionalised account of some his wife, Gwenllian's life in 1935, based on a diary and photos.

Mark and Gwenllian Day went from England to British Colombia with the hope of having some success in gold mining. They joined Mark's sister, Una Richmond and her husband Dick, who had gone out a few months earlier, and had got involved in market gardening. Also in on the adventure were Mrs. Caroline Day, Mark and Una's recently widowed mother, and Una and Dick's son, Peter.

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Maria Bowring (1817-1899) was the daughter of Sir John Bowring and his first wife, also called Maria. This story goes through Maria's life, as if she were writing it in a diary, and encompasses such things as her time in a convent, being poisoned, being shipwrecked, and having many of her beloved family members die. It is based on newspaper articles and books about her father, as well as letters from the various children to and from their pare...

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Poetry. LATE HUMAN is a collection of tragi-comic poems on lateness, belatedness, Weltschmerz, and borrowing (with a nod to Ernest Mandel's 1975 tome on the twilight of capitalism). The human of the title is multiple, personal, and drenched in the tears of the 21st century. Cracked children's rhymes lead onto an ethnography that takes Helen Mirren's first film appearance as seriously as Moby Dick. At the volume's center, three laments honor th...

Poetry that seeks to know the worlds we live in.

Carolina is a young woman, beautiful and determined, of Spanish and French descent, living in Mexico during the Revolution. Politics plays a decisive role in her life and her family, but it is love that will direct the course of Carolina's life. Love, that manifests itself in may forms - filial, maternal and, especially, romantic - gives meaning to life in a world that can be cruel and unjust. Carolina finds herself in situations that appea...

Carolina es una mujer, joven y bella de ascendencia espanola y francesa, viviendo en Mexico durante La Revolucion. Ciertamente, la politica juega un papel importante en la vida de Carolina. El amor, que se manifiesta en muchas formas - filial, maternal, y sobre todo romantico - y que da sentido a una vida muchas veces cruel e injusta. Carolina se encuentra una y otra vez enfrentando situaciones que parecen no ofrecerle ninguna salida. . Su f...