Women – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Little Mother of Russia

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:05 +0000

Empress Marie (1847-1928), born Princess Dagmar, was the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and sister of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, Edward VII’s wife. She was betrothed to Tsarevitch Nicholas of Russia, a love match on both sides, but tragically he died months before the wedding. A year later, out of duty she married his brother the new Tsarevich and sailed for Russia in 1866.

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Princess Olga

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

This is very much a human interest story, told with humour by a down to earth woman struggling to make ends meet in the 21st century. The upkeep of her historical childhood home, Provender House, in the depths of the English countryside, is indeed a constant daily battle for this modern-day princess. Princess Olga Romanoff, is the daughter of the eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II…

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Pamela Hansford Johnson

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Finalist in 2014-15 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction Pamela Hansford Johnson’s first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935 when she was 22 and had no literary contacts to ease her path, was a succès de scandale. On the publication of her second, John Brophy wrote in Time and Tide: ‘I have no doubt at all that Miss Hansford Johnson is already one of the most gifted and interesting of…

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Lady Sue Ryder of Warsaw

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Finalist in the People’s book Prize Winter Collection for Non-Fiction. There are numerous Sue Ryder charity shops throughout the UK, but few shoppers know much about their founder. Miss Ryder was a determined and philanthropic woman who created homes for those who were damaged by trauma and injury experienced during the Second World War. She was born into a privileged family and, when only 16…

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This Life of Grace

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Finalist in 2011-12 People’s Book Prize for Non-Fiction This Life of Grace is a biography and a history. It tells the story of Grace Jarrold, the youngest of eight children, who lived for almost ninety years in the village of Plympton in Devon. It also tells the story of the village over the last century, beginning with the Great War of 1914-1918, school life at that time as revealed in original…

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No End to Snowdrops

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

This authorised biography of the poet Kathleen Raine tells the story of how she developed from a small girl, who knew at the age of eight that she wanted only to write poetry, into a world-renowned poet and literary scholar. Philippa Bernard follows Kathleen Raine’s struggle against the constrictions of her suburban childhood to her exciting days at Girton College in the twenties…

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