The Lark
Everything that's happening to us-yes, everything-is to be regarded as a lark. See? This is my last word. This. Is. Going. To. Be. A. Lark.It's 1919, and Jane Quested and her cousin Lucilla are pulled suddenly from school by their guardian, who sets them up in a cottage on the fringes of London and informs them (by letter, since he's already fled) that he's gambled away their inheritance but is leaving them the house and £500 to carry on with. Lucilla is disheartened, but Jane is certain it will be a lark.With the help of a handsome man, a classic example of a capable woman, and a war veteran with a green thumb, the two unflappable young wome…
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- ISBN: 978-1-911579-45-8
- EAN: 9781911579458
- Produktnummer: 22288126
- Verlag: Dean Street Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.4 cm 289 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 289
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Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London), the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her sister Mary's ill health meant that the family travelled around for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which later inspired The Railway Children (this distinction has also been claimed by the Derbyshire town of New Mills).She was a guest speaker at the London School of Economics, which had been founded by other Fabian Society members.Towards the end of her life, she moved to Crowlink in Friston, and later to The Long Boat at Jesson, St Mary's Bay, New Romney, East Kent where, probably suffering from lung cancer (she smoked incessantly), she died in 1924 and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary in the Marsh. Her husband Thomas died at the same address on 17 May 1935. Edith's son Paul Bland was one of the executors of Thomas Tucker's will.
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