Four Girls On The Staircase
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The Staircase Girls
Author | : Catherine Seymour |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1509802908 |
Joyce leaned her black Triumph bicycle against a wall, and shivered in the foggy, early dawn light. Glancing up at the enormous wooden, carved gate, she hesitated. This was a secret world she was about to enter... For 16 year old Joyce, who lived in one of the poorest streets in Cambridge, the college building where she was about to enter represented privilege, wealth, a life she'd never live. As a bedder, Joyce would be working up and down one of the stone staircases, making the beds of the male students, sweeping floors, dusting desks. She never expected to also find herself mothering, chastising and sometimes even covering up for 'her boys'. The Staircase Girls takes us into the lives of Joyce and other bedders, like Nance, Maud, Rose and Audrey. They endured the Second World War and then had to contend with poverty, ill health and bereavement. They loved, lost and loved again. But their friendships gave them strength, and their work gave them happiness - and even a lasting connection with their charges, some of whom would go on to run the country. Revealing their untold stories for the first time, this is a vivid, poignant account of these remarkable women's lives.
We Four Girls
Author | : Mary Greenleaf Darling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : |
The Woman on the Stairs
Author | : Bernhard Schlink |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101870729 |
In a museum far from home a man stumbles onto a painting of a woman for whom he once, long ago, risked everything and who then mysteriously disappeared from his life. As a young lawyer, the nameless protagonist of The Woman on the Stairs became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and destructive relationship. An artist, the woman whose portrait he had painted, and her husband became a triangle that drew the lawyer deeper and deeper into their tangled web. Now, encountering the painting that triggered it all, the lawyer must reconcile his past and present selves; when he eventually locates the woman, he is forced to confront the truth of his love and the reality that his life has been irrevocably changed. With The Woman on the Stairs, the internationally acclaimed author of The Reader delivers a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love. Intricately crafted, poignant, and beguiling, this is Bernhard Schlink writing at his peak.
Ready for Life
Author | : David Veerman |
Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780842351997 |
Presents devotions with discussion questions and Bible verses centering on such topics as friendship, decision making, money management, school, truthfulness, and more.
Under the Stairs
Author | : Alan J Hill |
Publisher | : Book Guild Publishing |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2023-11-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1916668976 |
At a stately home in Burnley in 1936 a young girl is employed as a maid in service to the lord and lady of the house. She falls in love for the first time, ultimately having to deal with the consequences of her love in a manner she never imagined. A young man in the British Army in 1959 wrestles with his own identity and keeps secrets – some of which he will hold for the rest of his life. St. Helens in the mid 1970s and a young boy faces his father with legal documents he doesn’t understand that he finds in a shoe box under the stairs. Based on real events of one family’s search for the truth, Under the Stairs is an aching saga told across time, told through the generations of one family; their unconditional love for each other and their determination to answer the question we all want to know the answer to – Who am I?
A Woman’s View
Author | : Jeanine Basinger |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1995-06-23 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780819562913 |
"In this highly readable and entertaining book, Jeanine Basinger shows how the "woman's film" of the 30s, 40s, and 50s sent a potent mixed message to millions of female moviegoers. At the same time that such films exhorted women to stick to their "proper" realm of men, marriage, and motherhood, they portrayed -- usually with relish -- strong women playing out liberating fantasies of power, romance, sexuality, luxury, even wickedness...Basinger examines dozens of films -- whether melodrama, screwball comedy, musical, film noir, western, or biopic to make a persuasive case that the woman's film was a rich, complicated, and subversive genre that recognized and addressed, if covertly, the problems of women." Amazon.com viewed 7/31/2020.