The Rash Adventures
The Rise and Fall of Charles Edward Stuart
Margaret Forster Books
May 25, 1938 – February 8, 2016
Margaret Forster was a celebrated novelist, biographer, and literary critic whose insightful prose explored the complexities of human experience. Her work, characterized by keen observation and a distinctive narrative voice, offered readers profound explorations of society and the individual. Forster's contributions to literature and public discourse through her writing and criticism left a lasting impact.
The narrative unfolds through the edited diary of Millicent King, a woman born in 1901, capturing her experiences from the eve of the Great War through the tumultuous events of the twentieth century. Her journey takes readers from bohemian London to 1920s Rome, encompassing her social work and wartime efforts as she drives ambulances during the London bombings. This poignant blend of fiction and reality offers a richly textured portrayal of an ordinary woman's life against the backdrop of significant historical upheavals.
Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty, callous flatmate, although when James, middle-aged socialite and self-imposed 'Uncle', asks Georgy to become his mistress, she is tempted to accept.
In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise.
Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The diary is slight, but very sweet. You would be pleased to find it in your Christmas stocking... Margaret is a good egg. You like her more and more... If you were happy at school, Forster's diary will bring it all back. If you were unhappy, she will make you wistful for what you missed. Laura Freeman The Times
Significant Sisters
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Traces the lives of eight women - Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Florence Nightingale, Emily Davies, Josephine Butler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman - each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics. All fought to make lasting difference to women's lives.
On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. This title presents the 'edited' diary of this woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century.
Precious Lives
- 258 pages
- 10 hours of reading
The story of the author's ninety-six-year-old father, Arthur, and her brave & witty sister-in-law, Marion, battling with cancer. Through these two lives, so closely bound with her own, the author looks with wonder at the sheer tenacity of the human spirit.
Churchill's Grandmama
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The story of a woman who helped mould the famous Winston Churchill
