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The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio | |||
| Biography | ||||
| Diane Cole Ahl (Edited by) | ||||
| Cambridge 2002 280 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0521669413 245x175mm | ||||
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The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche | |||
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| Steven Nadler (Edited by) | ||||
| Cambridge 2000 320 pages | ||||
| Paperback 052162729X 225x150mm | ||||
| Published Price £20.99 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
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The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix | |||
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| Beth S. Wright (Edited by) | ||||
| Cambridge 2001 240 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0521658896 255x180mm | ||||
| Published Price £22.99 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
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The Cambridge Companion to Berekeley | |||
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| Kenneth P. Winkler (Edited by) | ||||
| Cambridge 2005 454 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0521456576 230x150mm | ||||
| Published Price £34.99 | Our Price £9.99 | |||
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Letters from the Bay of Islands | |||
| The Story of Marianne Williams | Biography | |||
| Caroline Fitzgerald (Edited by) | ||||
| Sutton 2004 270 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750936967 | ||||
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Humphry Davy | |||
| Life Beyond the Lamp | Biography | |||
| Raymond Lamont-Brown | ||||
| Sutton 2004 200 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750932317 | ||||
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Cellini | |||
| Artist, Genius, Fugitive | Biography | |||
| Derek Parker | ||||
| Sutton 2003 246 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 075092957X | ||||
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| Off-mint. Cellini (1500-1571) was among the most successful artists of Renaissance Europe. This biography looks at his apprenticeship to a goldsmith, commissions from the Medicis before he turned twenty, and the strength of personality that bolstered his reputation as one of Europe’s most gifted artists. | ||||
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That Singular Person Called Lear | |||
| The Extraordinary Life of the Author of the Owl and the Pussycat | Biography | |||
| Susan Chitty | ||||
| Tempus 2007 336 pages | ||||
| Paperback 075244137X | ||||
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Lady Gregory | |||
| An Irish Life | Biography | |||
| Judith Hill | ||||
| Sutton 2005 420 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750940867 | ||||
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| Author, playwright, founder of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and close friend and patron of Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) was born to a Galway landowner and never expected fame or literary success. This biography investigates her varied relationships and her many achievements and contradictions. | ||||
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John Paul Jones | |||
| Maverick Hero | Biography | |||
| Frank Walker | ||||
| Spellmount 2007 278 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1862273758 | ||||
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| A biography of John Paul Jones (1747-1792), hero of the War of Independence and the first captain to sail an American warship under an American flag, looking at his notoriety in Britain as a privateer and villain who conducted many raids on British ports. | ||||
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Frances Hodgson Burnett | |||
| Beyond the Secret Garden | Biography | |||
| Ann Thwaite | ||||
| Tempus 2007 384 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752441388 | ||||
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Edmund Gosse | |||
| A Literary Landscape | Biography | |||
| Ann Thwaite | ||||
| Tempus 2007 576 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0752441361 | ||||
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Charles II and the Duke of Buckingham | |||
| The Merry Monarch and the Aristocratic Rogue | Biography | |||
| David C Hanrahan | ||||
| Sutton 2006 248 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750939168 | ||||
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Madame Tussaud | |||
| A Life and a Time | Biography | |||
| Teresa Ransom | ||||
| Sutton 2003 272 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750927658 | ||||
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| The wax modelling skills of Madame Marie Tussaud (1761-1850) made her a popular sensation in 19th century Britain: but who was the woman behind the name? Teresa Ransom's absorbing biography tells the story of the brave and imaginative young artisan, who, despite working for the French royal family, managed to survive the revolution by making likenesses of its victims' severed heads, and who fled a disastrous marriage to finally make her reputation and fortune by exhibiting her work in London. | ||||
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To Befriend an Emperor | |||
| Betsy Balcombe's Memoirs of Napoleon on St Helena | Biography | |||
| Betsy Balcombe | ||||
| Ravenhall 2005 190 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905043031 | ||||
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| As the teenage daughter of an East India Company official on St Helena, live was dull for Betsy Balcombe until the arrival of Napoleon in 1815. He became her family's house guest while his prison-home on the island was made ready. Betsy, later Lady Elizabeth Abell, became friends with Napoleon and recorded all in a memoir: the strange story of how a precocious teenager and a fallen emperor talked, argued, played, confided and teased their way through grim years of exile on a barren rock. | ||||
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