An emotional account of the love affair between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried schoolteacher, and Geoffrey Bingham, an unhappily married barrister who lives in London. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.
The life of Beatrice Cardwell was much like that of many Americans in the early 20th century. She grew up in rural southwest Missouri, went to a one-room school through the eighth grade, married, and raised a family. Curiosity about her family tree never went much beyond two generations. However, like many Americans, she had a rich heritage. There were a few men and women of great prominence and renown in her past, which every genealogist hopes to discover. Her tenth great grandfather was the colonist Roger Williams, the Puritan founder of the state of Rhode Island; she shared a distant relationship with Judy Garland; and had the same ancestors as Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. Notwithstanding these examples, her people were mostly farmers of modest means who made up the core of the American story. This book begins in 1635 with William Fellows of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Thomas Cardwell of Colonial Virginia. It is about the ancestry of these two families and the daughter of their union in 1904. Biographical sketches and genealogical summaries contain 145 surnames and more than 375 individuals; plus 85 illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index.
Young lawyer, Crockett Cook, arrives at the decrepit Hawsfeffer Estate in rural England where he's stunned to discover the family patriarch vanished and foul play suspected. A carnival of characters is lusting over the family fortune - a fallen nun, a truculent huntsman, an aloof arsonist, and the overly pretentious, bejeweled matriarch. With his tendency to shriek like a drunken bird in the face of danger, Crockett enlists the help of his master, Petrarch, and the family's daughter, Bront , to follow a trail of clues from the uncertain present through the family's murderous and mysterious past.Combining multiple genres, Beatrice is more than a cozy mystery - it's a laugh-filled, sleuthing extravaganza.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 - 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.
Consigned in a cold, arranged marriage to Berenger de Roquefort, the lord of the remote medieval village of Montaillou in the French Pyrenees, we follow Beatrice as she struggles with life, a life in which women are scarcely valued, except to produce an heir. She is raped and subjected to the prolonged and abusive propositioning of Father Clergue, the village priest. She loses her husband, her sons, her home. And meanwhile the Inquisition is extending its claws across the surrounding countryside and imprisoning and burning people at the slightest whiff of heresy. This is the time of the heretic Cathars and Beatrice comes originally from a Cathar family. Another marriage gives her some happiness, or rather 'contentment', which she says is not the same thing. It is only when she has become confident enough to choose her own lover, that she finds true happiness. But it doesn't last long. She and her new partner are taken and imprisoned along with some of her former villagers. She is accused of heresy, witchcraft and scandalous behaviour. They are all interrogated by the Inquisitional Judge, BIshop Jacques Fournier. Their statements are recorded in Latin and removed to the Vatican when Fournier later became Pope Benedict X11 in 1334. These records now provide a unique source for historians today as well as the 'stuff' of this novel. Read to find out about Beatrice's life and if she survives her imprisonment. She was a woman, alive 700 years ago, who tried to stand against the standards of her time.
Ayant r ussi se cacher, une fillette est la seule survivante du massacre des siens, des habitants de son village et m me de ceux qui vivaient au ch teau dont ils d pendaient. Devant fuir les lieux, elle doit d sormais apprendre survivre dans un milieu hostile, dans la for t montagneuse des gorges du loup. Mais elle est fermement d cid e vivre, et surtout, venger les siens.
Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but, unlike his older brothers who graduated from various Public Schools, he ended up attending Ipswich Grammar School.
Though Beatrice is a significant departure from most of his literary output, critics and fans alike regard this fine novel as one of H. Rider Haggard's most accomplished works. A richly detailed account of an ill-fated but spiritually significant romance, the tale contains some of Haggard's most affecting writing in terms of emotional resonance and in-depth characterization.
An emotional account of the love affair between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried schoolteacher, and Geoffrey Bingham, an unhappily married barrister who lives in London. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.
