Biografia

Dissenting Forbears. The Maternal Ancestors of J.M.Keynes.

BROWN, NEVILLE. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Chichester: Phillimore, 1988. 0850336708. 1st edition. "The author is a first cousin of the great economist and inherited family records stretching over two centuries. These include diaries, sermon registers, autobiographies, letters and books. From this mass of material he ha...

Pictures from a Life....ain't it a game, eh!

FARRAN, DORIS. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Bexleyheath: Doris Farran, 1998. 0953492508. An Autobiography of Nobody in Particular. "An insight into the life of a girl brought up in the lean years of the '20s and '30s, experiencing the arduous and uphill struggle of that time, leading up to incidenets recalled during the...

My Land of the North. Memories of a Northern Childhood.

COOKSON, CATNERINE. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Headline, 1999. 0747274444. Revised edition. "Catherine Cookson's own account of her harsh upbringing in the industrial North East, and the effect that its poverty, exploitation and bigotry had on her life and her writing." 24.5cms x 21cms. Pp.224, illustrated througho...

Dearest Andrew. Letters from V.Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber 1951-1962.

SACKVILLE-WEST, V. / MACKNIGHT, NANCY (EDITOR). · 1980 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Michael Joseph, 1980. 0718118235. "The letters in this book reveal a side of Vita seldom seen - the gentle, affectionate friend. She regarded her long distance exchanges with her "dearest Andrew" as a kind of "Henry James story"..Nanct Macknight's aim in presenting the...

Gertrude Jekyll 1843-1932. (Lifelines 37).

MASSINGHAM, BETTY. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Princes Risborough: Shire Publications Ltd, 1980. 0852633041. An illustrated life of Gertrude Jekyll a major figure in the development of garden design. Pp.48, many black & white photos and illustrations, owner's label to lower corner of title page. Illustrated green card cove...

Frances Ridley Havergal. Worcestershire Hymnwriter.

GRIERSON, JANET. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Bromsgrove: The Havergal Society, 1979. 095065440X. 1st edition. "Frances Ridley Havergal is best known as the author of the popular hymn 'Take My Life', but at least thirty others are in common use. To her contemporaries she was much more than a hymnwriter. As a contributor t...

The Thrales of Streatham Park.

HYDE, MARY. · 1978 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Cambridge (Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. 3rd printing. The story which follows surrounds a journal of Hester Lynch Thrales, one which gives a rare insight into the life of an eighteenth-century family that was to have both typical and unusual experiences - the most un...

George Ratcliffe Woodward 1848-1934. Priest, Poet and Musician.

BARNES, JOHN E. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Norwich: The Canterbury Press, 1996. 1853111279. 1st edition. "Dr G.R.Woodward is best remembered as the writer of such well-known carols as 'This Joyful Eastertide', 'Ding Dong! Merrily on High', and 'Past Three A Clock'. But..he also played a part in the revival of plainsong...

Lacordaire. A Biographical Essay.

SHEPPARD, LANCELOT C. · 1964 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London:Catholic Book Club,1964. "Henri Dominique Lacordaire is known principally in the English-speaking world as a brilliant pulpit orator who packed Notre-Dame in Paris for his Lenten and Advent conferences..Lacordaire was..one of the formative influences in what might well ...

William Cowper: A Reappraisal.

SMITH, K.E. · 2001 · Chilton Books

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Olney: The Cowper and Newton Museum, 2001. 0951457012. 1st edition. "Although it cannot pretend even to sketch out all of the significant events of his life, it does seek to set the writings in the context of his biography and of his inner development. For this reason his boyh...

Walter Frere: Scholar, Monk, Bishop.

GORDON-TAYLOR, BENJAMIN AND STEBBING, NICOLAS. · 2011 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2011. 9781853118685. "Walter Frere was one of the great scholarly church leaders of the early twentieth century, yet he has remained something of an enigma..As a co-founder of the Community of the Resurrection his influence is everywhere, although he...

A Human Search: Bede Griffiths Reflects on His Life.

GRIFFITHS, BEDE. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Burns & Oates, 1997. 0860122743. An Oral History, edited by John Swindells. "His spiritual quest for 'the other half of my soul' led Bede from the civility of an English Anglican middle-class family and Oxford education before the First World War into the Catholic Chur...

The Autobiography of Anne Lady Halkett.

NICHOLS, JOHN GOUGH.(EDITOR). · 1875 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Camden Society, 1875. Ex library. A fragment of Lady Anne Halkett's dxtensive autobiography edited by John Gough ichols. 22cms x 17cms. Pp.xxii/118, armorial bookplate and a label to insiide front board, occasional light spotting. Brown cloth, gilt initials to front bo...

Nostradamus. The Man Who Saw Through Time.

MCCANN, LEE. · 1941 · Chilton Books

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New York: Creative Age Press Inc,1941. 3rd printing. "A strangely gifted man, writing in the 16th Century, forsaw events which took place immediately following his own life, and in his amazing book, the Centuries, he predicted important happenings in all parts of the world, th...

My Lives . Francis Meynell . (signed).

MEYNELL, FRANCIS 1891-1975. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London : Bodley Head, 1971 . 0370013034. Autobiography of Sir Francis Meynell, recalling his many 'lives', as journalist, poet, publisher, publicist, sportsman and businessman, with descriptions of the many eminent personalities he encountered. Signed first edition with 3 loos...

Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Works.

MARTIN, THOMAS. · 1835 · Chilton Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London: A. Maxwell, Law Bookseller to His Majesty, 1835. 1st edition. 16.5 cms x 11cms x 2.5cms. Pp.ix/367, roundel portrait to title page, slight toning to pages mainly to preliminaries, small closed tear to base of title page, new endpapers. Rebound in dark pink cloth, black...

From Crow-Scaring to Westminster. An Autobiography.

EDWARDS, GEORGE. · 1957 · Chilton Books

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London: The National Union of Agricultural Workers, 1957. Reprint of a book originally published in 1922. Autobiography of the MP and founder of the National Union of Agricultural Workers. Pp.240, portrait frontispiece + 4 further sepia photo plates, ink outlining of two words...

Dante.

LEWIS, R.W.E. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. 0297647024. This biography of one of the most important fathers of modern poetry paints a compelling portrait of a complex man, and the life and times which were to shape his extraordinary imagination and art. Pp.193, map of Dante's Italy. ...

The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.

SUSO, HENRY./ KNOX, THOMAS FRANCIS.(TRANSLATOR). · 1865 · Chilton Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London: Burns, Lambert, and Oates, 1865. Translated from the original German by Thomas Francis Knox, Priest of the Oratory, "made from the edition of the B.Henry Suso's Life and Works, edited by Cardinal Diepenbrock, Prince Bishop of Breslan, in1828. The text of the Life is ba...

The Life of John Calvin.

BEZA, THEODORE. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Darlington: Evangelical Press, 1997. 085234404X. A modern translation of the classic biography by Beza. Living Classics for Today series. "The earliest life of the Reformer and was written within weeks of Calvin's death. Moreover, its author was one who intimately shared Calvi...