Biography

ISBN: 9780718893231
Published by : Lutterworth Press
The Victorian era was a long one and involved many diverse changed both social, economic and cultural. By examining the effect of these changes through the eyes of two members of one family, an understanding of how a certain secti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718893187
Published by : Lutterworth Press
This is a literary biography of Richard Aldington, founding member of the Imagist Movement, poet of the First World War, author of Death of a Hero and a biography of D.H. Lawrence. Aldington’s is an extraordinary human story... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718893200
Published by : Lutterworth Press
Catherine Booth’s achievements - as a revivalist, social reformer, champion of women’s rights, and, with her husband William Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army - were widely recognized in he lifetime. However, Ca... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780957379282
Published by : Barzipan Publishing
In January 2013, Barack Obama was sworn in for a second term as the 44th President of the United States of America. The only African-American to occupy the White House, this charismatic and eloquent leader is carrying on a rich tr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718893132
Published by : Lutterworth Press
John Knox has suffered in this century from that trick of the popular imagination that seizes on one aspect of a historical figure and elevates it into the whole man. At one time he was the foremost Scottish genius, but in our day... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718893002
Published by : Lutterworth Press
"An archangel, but an archangel slightly damaged" said Charles Lamb of his oldest and closest friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this gripping new biography attention is focused upon the famous poet through a detailed examination of his family li... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780956838131
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement
Volume: 38
Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905) was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718893026
Published by : James Clarke & Co
John S. Peart-Binns brings us a fresh and distinctive view of Herbert Hensley Henson, the eighty-sixth Bishop of Durham, who is shown here to have formed his own character and forged his own way amidst the chaos of the shifting an... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780718893156
Published by : Lutterworth Press
The Swiss theologian Adolf Keller was the leading ecumenist on the European continent between the two world wars. In this book the historian Marianne Jehle-Wildberger delineates his life and its achievements. Based on research in forty archives i... .... Learn More