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Bitten by Witch Fever - Wallpaper Arsenic in the Victorian Home by Lucinda Hawksley
$70.00 NZD
Category: Home & Garden
Beautiful to look at and compelling to read, Bitten by Witch Fever is a highly original and captivating volume that interleaves facsimile sections of alluring, arsenic-laden wallpapers with thought-provoking narrative, tracing the arresting story of the use and effects of the toxic pigments ingrained in ...Show more
Charles Dickens: The Man, the novels, the Victorian Age by Lucinda Hawksley
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This biography, written by a direct descendant of Charles Dickens, is the definitive illustrated guide to the author and his work. Written by Charles Dickens' great-great-great granddaughter, this illustrated biography--with more than 20 images from his personal archive--delves deeply into the author's ...Show more
Charles Dickens and His Circle by Lucinda Hawksley
$21.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: NPG Companions
'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that moment, I had only known him as one of my ancestors.' -- Lucinda Hawksley Those who had known Charles Dickens as a child must have been astonished at his rise f ...Show more
Elizabeth Revealed - 500 Facts about the Queen and Her World by Lucinda Hawksley
$20.12 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
- A lively and affectionate celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's long and eventful life - Archive images and new photography combine to create a beautiful visual record of her reign - A fascinating glimpse into the private life of the monarchy - The wealth of information is presented in the successful, b ...Show more
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
$55.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
A collection of the most inspiring, illuminating, poignant and compelling correspondence from remarkable women through history. Letters of Great Women is a collection of the most inspiring, illuminating, poignant and compelling correspondence from remarkable women through history. Including 100 letters ...Show more
March, Women, March by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
This fascinating book uses anecdotes and accounts by both famous and hitherto lesser known suffragettes and suffragists to explore how the voice of women came to be heard throughout the land in the pursuit of equal votes for females. Using diary extracts and letters, the main protagonists of the women's ...Show more
March, Women, March by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
Voices of the Women's Movement explores the women's movement in Britain, from the passing of the Marriage and Divorce Act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself under King George V's hor ...Show more
Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards by Lucinda Hawksley
$35.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: NPG Short Histories
Taking as her starting point images from the holdings of the National Portrait Gallery, London, writer and art historian Lucinda Hawksley explores the history of facial hair, from prehistoric times to the present day. By way of introduction, she investigates how cave men shaved, the Pharaonic beard in a ...Show more
Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Spirited biography and quest to unearth the secrets of Princess Louise -- a royal desperate to escape her inheritance. The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has b ...Show more
The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumour and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted b ...Show more
When Art Really Works by Lucinda Hawksley, Andy Pankhurst
$21.99 NZD
Category: Art and Photography
Why do some artworks stand head and shoulders above others? Exceptional art somehow satisfies at a deeper level than the rest. When Art Really Works showcases a selection of eighty outstanding paintings and sculptures from around the world and throughout time, assessing just what it is that makes them s ...Show more
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