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    Jane Austen: A Life

    Claire Tomalin

    Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain’s best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman  

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    A Life of My Own

    Claire Tomalin

    A memoir that follows Claire Tomalin through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often difficult wartime childhood that followed, to…

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    Thomas Hardy

    Claire Tomalin

    In this seminal biography of the enigmatic novelist and poet Thomas Hardy ( Tess of the d'Urbervilles ), Whitbread Award winner Tomalin skillfully identifies the inner demons and the outer…

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    The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World

    Claire Tomalin

    A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain’s best biographers

    How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells’ life shape the father…

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    Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man

    Claire Tomalin

    Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy’s life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest poets; he…

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    Unexpected Elegies: Poems of 1912-13 and Other Poems About Emma

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    Thomas Hardy’s famous sequence of love poems, published as a book for the first time.

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    Mrs Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King

    Claire Tomalin

    Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan lived a quite different role off-stage as lover to Prince William, third son of George III. Unmarried, the pair…

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    Jane Austen: A Life

    Claire Tomalin

    Providing detailed and absorbing accounts of Jane Austen’s friendships and travels, Tomalin shatters the myth of the novelist as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was…

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    Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

    Claire Tomalin

    Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most…

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    The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World

    Claire Tomalin

    A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain’s best biographers

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    Charles Dickens: A Life

    Claire Tomalin

    Award-winning author Tomalin sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written about Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles a literary leviathan of…

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    The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

    Claire Tomalin

    Suitable for lovers of Charles Dickens, and for readers of biography everywhere, this title tells the story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens. It also provides a…

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    Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

    Claire Tomalin

    Focuses on the remarkable diaries of Pepys and brings his story vividly to life once more.

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    The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

    Claire Tomalin

    Originally published: London: Penguin Books, 1990.

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    The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

    Claire Tomalin

    Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the Rights of Women; travelled to revolutionary France and…

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    Charles Dickens: A Life

    Claire Tomalin

    Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book…

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    The Winter Wife

    Claire Tomalin

    This stage biography of gifted short-story writer Katherine Mansfield is set in the tuberculosis sanitarium where she went with her devoted companion, Ida Baker, to regain her health over the…

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    Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

    Claire Tomalin

    Tomalin intimately explores the life of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), renowned in his lifetime as a bureaucrat, a key figure in the British navy, and friend and colleague of the powerful.

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    Maurice , or the Fisher’s Cot: A Tale

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Maurice was the only children’s story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein , Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley’s personal family tragedies.

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    The Women Writers’ Handbook

    A.S. Byatt,Philippa Gregory,Jackie Kay,Madeleine Thien

    New edition of award-winning writers’ guide celebrates 30 years of feminist publishing. 30 authors including: A.S. Byatt, Kit de Waal, Carol Ann Duffy, Philippa Gregory, Jackie Kay, Madeleine Thien, Claire…

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