The perfect gentleman: The remarkable life of Dr James Miranda Barry, the woman who served as an officer in the British Army from 1813 to 1859

ROSE, June

Hutchinson

Modigliani

Biographies & Memoirs

Constable Co

Portrays the idealistic, romantic artist, through first-hand accounts from his family and friends, and includes dozens of his works of art

Modigliani: The Pure Bohemian

St Martins Pr

A portrait of the artists who created the Montmartre era of art history chronicles the unconventional life of Maurice Utrillo's mother, a fine artist in her own right, who was also the lover of Renoir, Erik Satie, Toulouse-Lautrec, and others.

Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre

Arts & Photography

Valadon, Suzanne

Individual Artists

Elizabeth Fry: A Biography

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Macmillan

For the sake of the children: Inside Dr Barnardo's, 120 years of caring for children

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution

Leaders & Notable People

Faber&Faber

"Married Love", published in 1916, sold over one million copies and was translated into 13 languages. What made the book such a success was the author's passion as a woman combined with her cool dispassionate approach to sex. Her reputation rests on her radical and pioneering work in birth control. When she opened a birth control clinic in 1921, the Catholic Church mounted a furious campaign against her, and a Catholic doctor accused her of experimenting on the poor. Yet, even though she lost her case, she gained even greater popular support, and during the 1920s and 30s her name was constantly in the headlines. This biography looks at her life and views.

Drawing on family and personal letters and papers, a diary and Marie Stopes's unpublished novel, June Rose throws new light on the interweaving of the public and personal life of a fascinating and formidable woman.

Marie Stopes

Health, Fitness & Dieting

History Press Ltd

“I feel that I can do the best, most profound things and life is short. How I wish I was living in an age when man wanted to raise temples to man or God or the Devil.” Jacob Epstein was thirty when he wrote these impassioned words. Now recognized as a seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century art, his powerful and often explicit sculptures, monumental in scale, were hailed as the work of a genius by a few contemporary figures such as Ezra Pound and Augustus John, but produced hostility and censoriousness from the art establishment. His is a true rags-to-riches story. Epstein was born in 1880 in the Jewish Ghetto of New York but emigrated to Europe to live a bohemian life, with a wife and several mistresses in a domestic menage. By the time of his death in 1959 he had met almost everybody of importance in the art world and many in political and other spheres. He endured public scandals caused by the nudity of his so-called Strand Statues (1907-1908; destroyed 1937) and the debauched-looking angel on his 1912 memorial for Oscar Wilde, but in 1946 he modeled the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill and was himself knighted in 1954. It is a comment on changing tastes that Epstein’s magnificent carving in alabaster, “Jacob and the Angel,” once refused by the Tate Gallery, now stands in the Central Sculpture Hall of Tate Britain. His sculpture, drawing, and other work are to be found in museums and art galleries all over the world. Daemons and Angels, the first biography in fifty years of this controversial sculptor, features black-and-white photographs throughout.

Demons and Angels: A Life of Jacob Epstein

Arts & Literature

Carroll&Graf

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