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Who was Queen Victoria?
A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black? She was also a passionate young princess who loved dancing. And there is also a third Victoria, the brilliant queen, one who invented a new role for the monarchy.
Victoria found a way of ruling when people were deeply uncomfortable with having a woman on the throne.
Her image as a conventional daughter, wife and widow concealed the reality of a talented, instinctive politician. Her actions, if not her words, reveal that she was tearing up the rules on how to be female. But the price of this was deep personal pain.
By looking in detail at twenty-four days of her life, through diaries, letters and more, we meet Queen Victoria up-close and personal. Living with her from hour to hour, we can see and celebrate the contradictions that make up British history's most recognisable woman.

On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world.
This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness.
So why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?
She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman.
With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley.

"Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was."

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness.

So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?

She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn’t do. Lucy Worsley’s biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman.

With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

В этой книге Люси Уорсли, английский историк, автор целого ряда бестселлеров на исторические темы, рассказывает, как убийство – темное, постыдное деяние, последнее средство отчаявшихся или подлое оружие негодяев – стало британской национальной одержимостью. Она показывает, как это увлечение привело к возникновению целого нового мира развлечений, включающего детективные романы и пьесы, живопись и кинофильмы, поэтические произведения и документальную криминальную журналистику. У нее получилась захватывающая история о том, как преступление превратили в искусство.

В этой книге Люси Уорсли, английский историк, автор целого ряда бестселлеров на исторические темы, рассказывает, как убийство - темное, постыдное деяние, последнее средство отчаявшихся или подлое оружие негодяев - стало британской национальной одержимостью. Она показывает, как это увлечение привело к возникновению целого нового мира развлечений, включающего…

Почему в Средние века люди спали сидя? Почему два столетия называются «немытыми»? По какой причине дамы викторианской эпохи часто падали в обморок? Как люди обходились без туалетной бумаги? Почему боялись есть фрукты? Люси Уорсли отвечает на эти и многие другие вопросы в своем ярком рассказе об английском жилище, полном множества живописных, почти осязаемых деталей……

В чем причина одержимости сдержанных британцев кровавыми преступлениями? И что это говорит о характере нации? В «Чисто британском убийстве», глобальном исследовании национальной мании, известный исследователь Люси Уорсли расскажет про убийства на Ретклиффской дороге. В свое время они вызвали настоящую панику! Она затронет дело Фредерика и Марии Мэннинг: они убили…

Lucy Worsley is, by day, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace State Apartments, the Banqueting House in Whitehall, and Kew Palace in Kew Gardens. By night, she is a writer and presenter. This is Lucy's fourth historical novel for Bloomsbury Children's Books.
Would she ever find a real-life husband? Would she even find a partner to dance with at tonight's ball? She just didn't kno

Этой биографией автор хочет показать читателям бытовые моменты жизни Джейн Остин, гениальной писательницы, которая отказалась от замужества ради творчества.

Буквально каждый день Джейн прослеживается благодаря письмам, адресованным ее сестре Кассандре. Женщина всегда мечтала о собственном уютном доме и выкраивала минуты на создание романов между домашними хлопотами.

Опираясь на личную корреспонденцию и художественные произведения, автор биографии постаралась поместить Джейн Остин в предметный мир ее многочисленных жилищ – пасторальных и отвратительных. Из писем можно узнать даже о политических событиях того времени, достаточно правильно истолковать крохотные «звоночки» меняющейся социальной жизни писательницы.

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