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It is a year since Ivy Beasley,an ageing spinster with a waspish tongue and an all seeing eye,watched with deep suspicion as her new neighbours,the Palmer,movedinto Round Ringford Post Office.Peggy Palmer's warm friendship with unhappily married Bill Turner continues to infuriate Ivy,until her attention is disastrously caught by the arrival of the new vicar,Nigel Brooks,and his wife,Sophie. As the farming year progresses,and Harvest Supper and the Christmas concert are followed by a funeral and a wedding,Ivy weaves her web with cunning,not realising that she too is caught in its sticky threads...

Introduce sleek sophistication to your home with the Spinster Smart Fan. Spectacular new finishes of soft brass and brushed nickel are unveiled in our Modern Forms Smart Fan collection. The three smartly designed blades circulate air with an agile yet robust gracefulness, bringing incomparable comfort and illumination with an integrated LED luminaire, throughout your space. The convenient, 6-speed set-up can be controlled locally using the included Bluetooth remote control or remotely using the Modern Forms app.

Introduce sleek sophistication to your home with the Spinster Smart Fan. Spectacular new finishes of soft brass and brushed nickel are unveiled in our Modern Forms Smart Fan collection. The three smartly designed blades circulate air with an agile yet robust gracefulness, bringing incomparable comfort and illumination with an integrated LED luminaire, throughout your space. The convenient, 6-speed set-up can be controlled locally using the included Bluetooth remote control or remotely using the Modern Forms app.

Introduce sleek sophistication to your home with the Spinster Smart Fan. Spectacular new finishes of soft brass and brushed nickel are unveiled in our Modern Forms Smart Fan collection. The three smartly designed blades circulate air with an agile yet robust gracefulness, bringing incomparable comfort and illumination with an integrated LED luminaire, throughout your space. The convenient, 6-speed set-up can be controlled locally using the included Bluetooth remote control or remotely using the Modern Forms app.

An exotic end for an English spinsterEn route to a family vacation on the French Riviera, Inspector Roderick Alleyn glimpses from the train a shocking tableau. In a moonlit window a white-robed figure raises a knife to a woman's shadow. Thus begins his incognito exploration of the Chateau of the Silver Goat...where a jet-set cult's 'Way of Life' could spell death for a maiden lady of a certain age-and even for Alleyn's own young son unless he can unveil its illicit mysteries...

In 1920, H. G. Wells published his best-selling The Outline of History. Several years earlier, Florence Deeks had sent a similar work to Wells’s North American publisher. Deeks’s The Web was a history of the world with an emphasis on the role that women played. Her book was rejected. Upon publication of Wells’s massive opus (1,324 pages), which he completed in 18 months, Deeks discovered similarities between the two texts. The books had matching structures, scope, and even contained identical factual errors. From accounts of their contrasting lives (Wells was a philanderer and social progressive, and Deeks was a feminist who never married), personal memoirs, and courtroom transcripts — where Deeks fought her case of plagiarism — McKillop weaves the story like a legal thriller. Over 25 photographs add to this forgotten chapter in literary history.

Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally free from family ties and constraints. Taking off in their Plymouth Valient, they hit the road on a journey through the changing cultural landscape of America - civil rights marches and the assassination of Martin Luther King.

A Lady with a scandalous secret, a Marquess who is also a spy, hidden letters, doubt and misdirection, an undeniable love.Lady Lily Gardenbrook, eldest daughter of the Duke of Elbury, is perilously close to being a spinster. After three Seasons, she still hasn’t accepted a suitor – but not for lack of candidates. Lady Lily has a secret – a secret which would lead to scandal, should it ever be revealed. A secret which relates to the thing which matters most in her life. She hopes for love, yet a husband would never want her, if that secret was known – to marry would mean losing everything.Trent Weatherton, Marquess of Canterford, serves the Crown as a gentleman spy, always monitoring those of the ton for anything untoward. He has never been one to socialise much, but his role requires it of him. Convinced that marriage and spying could never make a good mix, he is unprepared for his reaction to Lady Lily Gardenbrook, which makes him question every assumption.But when Trent’s men discover that secret correspondence travels in and out of Lady Lily’s family residence, he must investigate – for what if the woman he is coming to care for is a threat to the Crown?Can Trent discover what is really happening, before he loses his chance at love? Can Lily overcome her fears, and allow the possibility that love might not steal what is most important to her? Will they each discover that the other is not at all what they seemed, in the best possible way? Or will the chance for love be lost, and Lily be doomed to life as a spinster?Read the whole series !A Spinster for a Spy (Lily)A Vixen for a Viscount (Hyacinth) (coming soon)A Bluestocking for a Baron (Rose) (coming soon)A Diamond for a Duke (Camellia) (coming soon)A Minx for a Merchant (Primrose) (coming soon)An Enchantress for an Earl (Violet) (coming soon)A Maiden for a Marquess (Iris) (coming soon)A Heart for an Heir (Thorne) (coming soon)If you love great Regency romance, you'll love these !

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book“Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why­ she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried.This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life.Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.

Inspector Alleyn has decamped for the South of France for a family vacation. Well, that and a little official poking around. Unfortunately, the object of his poking—the cultish denizens of a sinister and luxurious chateau—are not fond of being poked, and they have a particularly unpleasant way of getting their point across. More a thriller than a whodunit, this is a fresh take for Marsh, while retaining the cleverness and vivid characterizations that her fans demand.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book“Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why­ she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried.This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life.Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.

Were the lines around his eyes from laughter or light living? One good look at Ronan Patrick Blakely Marquis of Herrington, and Gillian Redford thought she knew the answer or did she?

'Watching, fascinated and horrified, he saw thin fingers creep around the edge of the black curtain. Someone from inside was tugging to loosen it ...' Miss Martin, a 74-year-old spinster, enjoys her daily habit of watching passers-by from her window. When she strikes up a friendship with one of them - the golden-haired Pamela - she has no inkling that the innocence of her fading years is about to be turned upside down. The little old lady becomes inextricably involved in the child's fate, and when she calls in private eye Arthur Crook to help, a plot of abduction, fraud and murder unfolds ...

What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind the security and comfort of their middle-class homes to undertake perilious jounreys of thousands of miles, tramping through rain forest, caravaning across deserts, and scaling mountain rages? Dea Birkett delves into the diaries and letters of 50 such women and discovers troubled and unconventional lives...

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Left without her family home and position in society after the death of her father, well-born Clarissa Driscoll must do her best to prove to the doubtful Earl of Kinsford that she has not lost her virtue as well. Original.

First American edition stated 1977. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Hardcover with DJ. Condition as new, square and tight book, corners not bumped, no edgewear, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ fine, no edgewear, no tears, no chips, very slight shelfwear, price not clipped (6.95) . 8vo, 164 pages.

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Come back to a time when manners are everything and rules are made to never be broken. Come back to a time when men are in charge and women do what they are told...Yeah, that never happened.Welcome to Megan Bryce's Regencyland, where ladies with backbone get what they want. Where a woman can thumb her nose at rules and care little for convention, and yet somehow, unexpectedly and most reluctantly, find love.To Catch A SpinsterOlivia Blakesley, self-proclaimed spinster extraordinaire, is quite happy with her life. She has her studies and her duties, what need does she have of a husband? With five sisters married she knows the reality does not live up to the promise, and does not need to personally experiment with the state to know she would be ill-suited to it. However, she finds herself envious of at least one aspect of marriage. But to experience the physical side of marriage, one doesn't need a husband, all one needs is the right man...Nathaniel Jenkins knows his duty. Marry a young girl from a respectable family and father an heir, no matter how cold the endless parade of suitable girls leaves him. But a shocking proposal from a scholarly spinster leaves him wondering if unsuitable is just what he's looking for. Can he convince his spinster that marriage is the greatest experiment of all?

A young woman who shares an apartment with an elderly aunt returns to police headquarters repeatedly to complain of strange shifts in the position of her furniture during the night. On a particularly busy day the Inspector puts her off just long enough for disaster to strike. Translated by Eileen Ellenbogen. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book