Mrs Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire TomalinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 7.5 MBOverview: Mrs Jordan’s Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan lived a quite different role off-stage as lover to […]
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin (Author), Dame Penelope Wilton (Narrator)Requirements: MP3 Player, 64 kbps, Duration: 9 hours and 38 minutes, 257.6 MBOverview: As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success. Now she turns to look at her own life. […]
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire TomalinRequirements: ePUB Reader, 3 MBOverview: Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French […]
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire TomalinRequirements: ePUB Reader, 5 MBOverview: For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced […]
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire TomalinRequirements: ePUB Reader, 4 MBOverview: Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and […]