Flanders, Judith.

Summary: "Expert Victorian-era historian Judith Flanders explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dicken's novels, bringing life on the streets of London to vivid, fascinating life. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capitol grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 FLA

Shapiro, James S.

Summary: An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year--1599--that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. How was Shakespeare transformed from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and whom he works with as he invests in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM SHA

Taylor, D. J. (David John)

Summary: "Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 TAY

Dickens, Charles

Summary: Tells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Book-of-the-Month Club 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dic

Nicholl, Charles.

Summary: "In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster - and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken, words, were recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage dowry - but it opens an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life story. Some eight years earlier, we learn, Shakespeare was lodging in the house of a French immigrant...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM NIC

Trollope, Anthony

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRO