Juliet R. V. Barker è una storica specializzata nel Medioevo e nella biografia letteraria. Il suo lavoro si concentra sulla vita e sulle opere di figure significative, con un profondo interesse per la famiglia Brontë e le complessità dei tornei medievali. Barker impiega una ricerca meticolosa e un rigore analitico per illuminare le complessità del passato per i suoi lettori. La sua scrittura offre prospettive penetranti sui contesti letterari e storici che hanno plasmato i suoi soggetti.
Caring For Life, originating from a Baptist church in Leeds, has dedicated two decades to supporting vulnerable young adults in rebuilding their lives. With an impressive 85% success rate in preventing re-offending and a 98% rate in securing long-term housing, the charity emphasizes lasting support over quick solutions. Its mission is to embody the love of Jesus, providing essential stability and care for some of society's most challenged youth.
The definitive collection of the Brontes' letters, selected by the unrivalled authority on the family.
One of the most successful history books of recent years, Agincourt is reissued with a new introduction by Bernard Cornwell and a new preface by Juliet Barker to mark the 600th anniversary of the battle.
With nearly 200 illustrations, step-by-step instruction and a minimum of necessary tools, this book leads both amateurs and skilled woodworkers through the delicate and precise techniques, and brings the art of violin making within reach of all. schovat popis
The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about that half-mad , repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we?
William Wordsworth is usually remembered as the quintessential Victorian Poet Laureate: a dull, worthy, establishment figure, with impeccable middle class, Tory, Anglican credentials, whose moralistic poetry has been required reading for generations of yawning school children. Yet there is so much more to Wordsworth than Daffodils and The Prelude. This selection of letters and autobiographical fragments introduces us to the real Wordsworth: the rebellious schoolboy, who vandalised his family portraits, became a supporter of the French Revolution and fathered an illegitimate daughter in France; the radical poet whose flouting of the conventions of the day attracted the ridicule of the reviewers and forced him to endure thirty years of rejection, obscurity and financial hardship before achieving belated critical and popular success; the devoted brother, husband and father who could still write passionate love letters to his wife after ten years of marriage and the birth of five children; and, finally, the revered patriarch whose poetry formed the hearts and minds of a generation, whose opinions were sought by writers, politicians, churchmen and educationalists throughout the English speaking world, but who thought nothing of vaulting walls, skating on the Lakes or climbing Helvellyn even in his seventies.
Juliet Barker provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and a fascinating study of medieval life in English towns and countryside. She tells how and why an unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda.
A fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from the acclaimed author of Agincourt.