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5 giorni fa · Gwen Raverat acted as primary caregiver, advocate, and confidante, whilst rarely relying upon professional medical support in the care of her husband. This is a powerful account that clearly shows how the care process can deeply affect the caregiver as well as the patient.
3 mag 2024 · Gwen Raverat, the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, described this memoir of her late Victorian Cambridge childhood as a drawing of the world when I was young . The observations of the small incidents in her life and of her eccentric Darwin family, recorded here both in her inimitably charming prose and her line drawings, reveal an ...
1 giorno fa · Men den bok som Margareta tyckt vara allra roligast att översätta är en barndomsskildring av Charles Darwins sondotter Gwen Raverat, Så var det då, som författaren även illustrerat. – Jag läste om den alldeles nyligen. Den är rolig och helt underbar, både till innehåll och språk. Margareta tystnar en stund.
5 giorni fa · 14th May 2024. Aquilegia, more commonly known as columbine or granny's bonnet, is an old-fashioned favourite. It self-seeds prolifically and hybridises quickly so can appear in early summer in new and unexpected colour combinations - something that has happened here, in Stanley Spencer's Columbines (1938, private collection).
7 mag 2024 · Gwen Raverat: Period Piece: 1952 Business Andrew Carnegie: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: with Illustrations: 1920 Richard DeVos: Simply Rich: Life and Lessons from the Cofounder of Amway: A Memoir: 2014 Andrew S. Grove: A Memoir: Swimming Across: 2001 Comedy Terry-Thomas: Filling the Gap: 1959 Harpo Marx: Harpo Speaks: 1961 ...
29 apr 2024 · Gwen Reverat, a local historian recounts: “ There is a tale of Queen Victoria being shown over Trinity by the Master, Dr Whewell, and saying, as she looked down over the bridge: 'What are all those pieces of paper floating down the river?'
23 apr 2024 · Subscribe. JaninaDuszejko · 28/04/2024 21:54. Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester is the aurobiography of the daughter of a middle class family who lost their money in the great depression and went to live in a slum in Liverpool. I adored this book and its sequels as a teenager.
