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Bloomsbury Ballerina : Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes by Judith Mackrell
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Born in 1891 in St Petersburg, Lydia Lopokova lived a long and remarkable life. Her vivacious personality and the sheer force of her charm propelled her to the top of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Through a combination of luck, determination and talent, Lydia became a star in Paris, a vaudeville favourite ...Show more
Flappers: Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is a gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s. Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a ...Show more
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line by Judith Mackrell
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms as men.Going with the Boy ...Show more
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice by Judith Mackrell
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Veniers waned during construction and the project was abandoned. Empty, unfinished, and decaying, the building was considered an eyesore until the early twentie ...Show more
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