The wheel of things: a biography of L.M. Montgomery, author of 'Anne of Green Gables'

GILLEN, Mollie

Biographies & Memoirs

Harrap

In keeping with the practice of the 18th century, Edward Augustus, son of George III and the Duke of Kent, commissioned a friend to find him a mistress. From this unpromising and unromantic beginning grew his 27-year-long love affair with Julie de St Laurent.Edward was sent to command the garrison at the British naval base of Halifax, and Julie went with him. Together they spent many happy years there and in Quebec City. The Duke inscribed his devotion on the landscape at his estate near Halifax, where walks were laid out to spell "Julie", and a heart-shaped pond was dug as a testament to their love. When the only heir to England's throne died, however, the Duke's duty to make a royal marriage and produce more heirs was clear. He and Julie parted, though he continued to concern himself about her well-being and financial stability.As it turned out, Edward was successful and the future Queen Victoria was born from his royal marriage. Edward died not long afterwards, leaving behind him several fine public buildings in Halifax as monuments of his time in that city.The Prince and His Lady is both a moving love story and a fascinating portrait of the social life of Canada's early history.

The Prince and His Lady: The love story of the Duke of Kent and Madame de St Laurent

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

SIDGWICK JACKSON

From the dust jacket: "On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister, was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons in London.  His assassin made no attempt to escape, and was discovered sitting quietly on a bench near the fireplace of the lobby.  'You need not press me,' he said, 'I submit myself to justice.  I wish I were in Perceval's place.'  'My name is John Bellingham; it is a private injury--I know what I have done.  It was a denial of justice on the part of Government.' He spoke calmly and rationally and his composure remained unshaken throughout the weeks of his trial.  The victim was, in the words of The Times of 12 May, 'a man who, in his personal intercouse, gave offence to no one--in his private life was an example to all--and who...conducted political conflicts in a way that seemed to disarm them of their characteristic bitterness.'  But who was his assassin? A lunatic? The spearhead of a conspiracy designed to plunge the country into turmoil and insurrection?  A killer hired by the French, or even by the Americans?  As it happened he was none of these, but simply, in his own eyes at least, a wronged man who had been forced to take justice into his own hands to remedy a grievance that originated in his trip to Archangel, Russia.  Mollie Gillen pieces together the extraordinary narrative of John Bellingham's life and describes with meticulous care the events leading up to this startling murder.  It is another case of fact being far stranger than fiction.  For no novelist could possibly invent such a character and such a story."

Assassination of the Prime Minister;: The shocking death of Spencer Perceval

Royal duke: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843)

Lucy Maud Montgomery is Canada's best-known writer of children's fiction. Anne of Green Gables-- in print, film, television, on stage--captures people's imaginations as easily now as it did when it burst upon the world in 1908. Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up in Prince Edward Island and she set her best-loved stories there. She worked briefly as a journalist, but family responsiblities shaped her life as a young single woman. At 36 she married a dour, often depressive Presbyterian minister and moved to Ontario. There she lived a life of contradictions--in private, the romantic, successful imaginative writer; in public the strict, dutiful minister's wife. Using diaries and letters Lucy Maud never intended to be made public, The Wheel of Things is a pioneering biography of one of Canada's most successful and important writers. Since its publication, the release of Montgomery's diaries and other work by scholarly writers have confirmed the life story that Mollie Gillen tells so well in this important and path-breaking biography.

The Wheel of Things: A Biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery (Goodread Biographies)

Arts & Literature

Goodread Biography

The Prince and His Lady: The Love Story of the Duke of Kent and Madame de St Laurent (Goodread Biographies)

Historical

In keeping with the practice of the 18th century, Edward Augustus, son of George III and the Duke of Kent, commissioned a friend to find him a mistress. From this unpromising and unromantic beginning grew his 27-year-long love affair with Julie de St Laurent.Edward was sent to command the garrison at the British naval base of Halifax, and Julie went with him. Together they spent many happy years there and in Quebec City. The Duke inscribed his devotion on the landscape at his estate near Halifax, where walks were laid out to spell "Julie", and a heart-shaped pond was dug as a testament to their love. When the only heir to England's throne died, however, the Duke's duty to make a royal marriage and produce more heirs was clear. He and Julie parted, though he continued to concern himself about her well-being and financial stability.As it turned out, Edward was successful and the future Queen Victoria was born from his royal marriage. Edward died not long afterwards, leaving behind him several fine public buildings in Halifax as monuments of his time in that city.The Prince and His Lady is both a moving love story and a fascinating portrait of the social life of Canada's early history.Replaces the Goodread edition, ISBN 0-88780-139-0

The Prince and His Lady: The Love Story of the Duke of Kent and Madame de St Laurent

Formac

The wheel of things: A biography of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables

Regional Canada

Fitzhenry-Whiteside

Lucy Maud Montgomery (The Canadians)

The founders of Australia: A biographical dictionary of the first fleet

Reference

Library of Australian History

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