![]() ![]() ![]() After her daughter's birth, her mother Lady Spencer wrote that "I will own I feel so partial to my Dear little Gee, that I think I never shall love another so well." Two younger siblings followed: Henrietta ("Harriet") and George. The Duchess was born Miss Georgiana Spencer, on 7 June 1757, as the first child of John Spencer (later Earl Spencer) and his wife, Georgiana (née Poyntz, later Countess Spencer), at the Spencer family home, Althorp. She was also a great-great-great-aunt of Elizabeth II by marriage through the queen's maternal grandmother.Ī young Miss Georgiana Spencer with her mother, Margaret Georgiana Spencer. Their lives, centuries apart, have been compared in tragedy. She was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. With a preeminent position in the peerage of England, the Duchess was famous for her charisma, political influence, beauty, unusual marital arrangement, love affairs, socializing, and notorious for her gambling addiction, leading to an immense debt. Born into the Spencer family, married into the Cavendish family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and the mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.Īs the Duchess of Devonshire, she garnered much attention and fame in society during her lifetime. ![]() Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Spencer / dʒ ɔːr ˈ dʒ eɪ n ə/ jor- JAY-nə 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), was an English aristocrat, socialite, political organiser, author, and activist. ![]()
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![]() The Marines have mostly cleared a swath of Manhattan south of Canal Street of skels, and teams of “sweepers” are picking off any stragglers they might have missed to re-populate the city. There’s been a plague! Most of humanity has been turned into zombies, or “skels.” Skels are divided into two types – vicious flesh-eating predators or catatonic “stragglers” lingering at their former lives.ĭuring the events of the book, the plague has mostly receded, and a fragile government is slowly reforming in Buffalo, New York. On its surface, Zone One is your typical post-apocalyptic zombie novel. I wanted to like it, but the narrative was muddled and the narrator was highly unlikable from the start. ![]() This book tries hard to bridge being “literary” and a zombie book - not very well. Now they were mostly mouths and fingers, fingers for extracting entrails from soft cavities, and mouths to rend and devour in pieces the distinct human faces they captured, that these faces might become less distinct, de-individuated flaps of masticated flesh, rendered anonymous like them, the dead.” In Brief: ![]() No matter the hue of their skin, dark or light, no matter the names of their gods or the absences they countenanced, they had all strived, struggled, and loved in their small human fashion. ![]() “They had been young and old, natives and newcomers. ![]() ![]() Memories of killing … the Colosseum in Rome. Beard is consistently asking the same question: what is the relationship between the ancient past and today? In the Colosseum, she falters, finding it unbearable, as any mother might, to admit to her children that killing and torture are not long-lost memories ripe for play-acting, but rather the hallmark of the world they will inherit. This latest manifesto, Women and Power, originally delivered as two lectures, in 20, under the auspices of the British Museum and the London Review of Books, is no exception. She is a writer of exceptional erudition and biting wit, and reading her is always a pleasure. Beard is our most famous classicist, with a gift for bringing ancient Greece and Rome alive on the page like no one else. Given the relentless, vicious misogyny to which Beard has been exposed, it is not surprising that, in her books on classical life and history, such personal moments are rare.īut this one speaks volumes. ![]() A t the end of Mary Beard’s SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome of 2015, she describes taking her kids to the Colosseum in Rome, where she agrees to pay for them to be photographed with “chancers” dressed up as gladiators, buys them helmets and, “turning a blind eye to the cruelties of the modern world”, reassures them that “we do not do anything as cruel as that now”. ![]() ![]() If there’s anything that really stood out, it was the love that Lexxie had for her brother Tyler, which she relives in her thoughts and memories. There’s been an influx of YA books about suicide lately, and I was skeptical about picking this one up after reading I Was Here and All the Bright Places. But The Last Time We Say Goodbye set itself apart with the authenticity of Lexxie’s feelings and character relationships, and I’m really glad I read it. ![]() But Lex is about to discover that a ghost doesn't have to be real to keep you from moving on.įrom New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye is a gorgeous and heart-wrenching story of love, loss, and letting go. But there's a secret she hasn't told anyone-a text Tyler sent, that could have changed everything. And it feels like that's all she'll ever be.Īs Lex starts to put her life back together, she tries to block out what happened the night Tyler died. Now she's just the girl whose brother killed himself. Friends who didn't look at her like she might break down at any moment. The last time Lex was happy, it was before. ![]() ![]() The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand ![]() ![]() This book is something else entirely, original drawings, not copies of somebody else's. Authors who wish to draw pretty mannequins in historique dress and their own interpretations of old artworks always get them wrong. 'Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art.' American Journal of Archaeology 93, no. (I am on record as saying that author-drawn costume histories are rubbish. Between the patterns in Arnold's books and the detailed drawings of the finished garments in this book, accurate reproductions can be made. Because of that, this book is an excellent companion to Janet Arnold's books, in which many of the same dresses have carefully charted dress patterns. Many of the dresses in this book are famous in their own way, in the collections of England. Bradfield has closely, carefully studied them in person and has produced excellent, clear drawings of them, inside and out, showing details of construction and pattern, as well as supplemental material and accessories. Costume in Detail: Women's Dress, 1730-1930 by Nancy Bradfield () Hardcover 153 ratings 4.4 on Goodreads 177 ratings Hardcover 117.57 9 Used from 117.57 Paperback 34.06 3 Used from 28.99 12 New from 23.95 Publisher Chambers See all details The Amazon Book Review Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() These dresses are often too fragile to exhibit, or even photograph clearly, but Ms. Costume in Detail: Women's Dress 1730-1930, by Nancy Bradfield, is a unique, detailed, highly useful collection of drawings of historic clothing, almost entirely women's, drawn from specimens in British collections. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a throwaway usage of the word, not hugely significant, but it emphasises the point that poor people such as they are considered "obscure" by society, not worth paying much attention to: There's even one passage in the story where the word "obscure" is used by Jude himself, in reference to his and Sue's divorces. In the end he dies unknown, unheard of, without qualifications, none of his dreams achieved - in a word, in obscurity. ![]() This makes more sense in terms of the character of Jude: he spends so much time trying to enter into one of the colleges of Oxford Christminster, to achieve an education, to study theology, even to become an academic clergyman, but in the end he remains a stonemason and labourer, his obscurity in the world upper-class academia guaranteeing his rejection from every college he approaches. ![]() Official policy has changed, for reasons that remain obscure. Not clear and difficult to understand or see: Indeed, the Cambridge English Dictionary lists two meanings: You seem to be assuming that "obscure" means something like "strange" or "difficult to understand", but the more common (in my experience) meaning of the word is something more like "unknown" or "not famous". TL DR: you're getting the wrong meaning of "obscure". ![]() ![]() Donatello – Epic Crossover for Mirage.Leonardo is armed with his dual swords and his trusty hockey stick from Casey Jones himself. Leonardo – Epic Crossover for Jiro – With Casey Jones and Master Splinter by his side, Leonardo’s Signatures also include his skateboard and some slices of pizza. ![]() Michelangelo is ready to fight using his iconic Nunchaku and some pizza boxing gloves. Michelangelo – Epic Crossover for Val – With the help of Master Splinter, his Signatures include his skateboard and some cheesy pizza.His main weapons feature his iconic dual Sai and a Turtle Crossing sign. Raphael – Epic Crossover for Ragnir – Raphael uses his skateboard, hot pizza, and shuriken in his Signatures.It’s Ninja Time! Sink your teeth into these four New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Crossovers. Now that’s what we call Turtle-y awesome. Four new avatars featuring the Foot Clan symbol, Krang, the Technodrome, and an animated avatar featuring all the Turtle’s faces will also be offered. There will also be new map art depicting the tubular sewers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Free-For-All and 1v1 versions available. Effect featuring Shredder and the Foot Clan will be available as well. ![]() New Signature attacks with appearances by Master Splinter and Casey Jones and a new K.O. Their arrival ninja-kicks off an in-game event featuring a new game mode called Crew Battles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Could the culprit be FunJungle's animal-hating head of operations? Or is it FunJungle's owner-Summer's dad-a man who is much more concerned about money than animal welfare? The deeper Teddy and Summer dig, the more danger they're in-because when it comes to hippo homicide, the truth can't be caged. The zoo's top brass claim the hippo went belly up the natural way, but Teddy and his feisty friend Summer McCraken have other ideas. He believes that Henry, the hippopotamus at the brand-new FunJungle, has been murdered. Stuart Gibbs, Belly Up 12 likes Like It’s as though I went down to Disneyland and assassinated Mickey Mouse. ![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs 13,237 ratings, 4.20 average rating, 1,141 reviews Open Preview Belly Up Quotes Showing 1-26 of 26 Mickey Mouse is just a rat in suspenders. ![]() ![]() ![]() He awakes in a hospital without his personal belongings and with no way to contact his boss or family. Special Agent Ethan Burke is involved in an accident on his way into Wayward Pines, Idaho - a place where two missing agents were last supposed to be. Perhaps I wouldn't have picked up on it if I hadn't already seen a diverse cast in the show, but it was like coming to a lesser, whitewashed version of the story I've come to love. And the pearly-whiteness of the cast of characters practically glows from the pages. It's impossible not to notice how every woman becomes hot or "cute". Pines is built on a fantastic idea - no, really, a truly epic idea - and that strength just about manages to carry the book despite some poor writing, an asshole protagonist, and an exceptional lack of diversity that, given the situation, has even more troubling implications than usual.Ĭoming into this book after watching the show definitely affects how you view it. ![]() ![]() Yes, I know the "reveal" has been spoiled, but that really wasn't my problem with it. The strengthening sense that something was very, very wrong.Īs with The Magicians, I have to confess I like the TV series Wayward Pines far better than the book. And the base emotion underlying it all that was getting harder and harder to ignore. ![]() |